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read up

/ riːd /

verb

adverbwhen intr, often foll byon to acquire information about (a subject) by reading intensively

Study or learn by reading, as in I don't know much about childhood illnesses, but I can always read up on them . [First half of 1800s]

Cardwell might have been well advised to read up on the entire enterprise.

It was this, which Malhi read up on during a family trip to India last year, which spurred on his work.

Had they not written the destiny of that babe by the desert spring in the same characters I read up there to-night?

I left you to rest and read up La Dame aux Camélias; not meditate on mortality.

I thought yuh knew the horse—the way yuh read up his pedigree—till I seen yuh mount him.

If the subject cannot read up to the twenty-foot line, nearsightedness or astigmatism is indicated.

I condescended to read up the guide-book, and put myself in the hands of the housekeeper.

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