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Bring up   /brɪŋ əp/   Listen
Bring up

verb
1.
Summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic.  Synonyms: arouse, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, evoke, invoke, put forward, raise, stir.  "He conjured wild birds in the air" , "Call down the spirits from the mountain"
2.
Bring up.  Synonyms: nurture, parent, raise, rear.  "Bring up children"
3.
Promote from a lower position or rank.
4.
Raise from a lower to a higher position.  Synonyms: elevate, get up, lift, raise.  "Lift a load"
5.
Cause to come to a sudden stop.
6.
Put forward for consideration or discussion.  Synonym: raise.  "Bring up an unpleasant topic"
7.
Make reference to.  Synonyms: advert, cite, mention, name, refer.
8.
Cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes.  Synonyms: boot, reboot.






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"Bring up" Quotes from Famous Books



... Let each, then, bring up out of his own soul its purest, broadest, simplest faith; and when any ten or ten thousand find that the same faith has come to birth in their several souls, each one of them all will be exalted to a divine confidence, and will make new requisitions upon the soul which ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various

... been overworking, for we are poor and she had had us two children to bring up, as my father is dead. She was on her way to see about going away for a time to get a good rest, now that John and I are old enough to look out for ourselves, when she lost the ...
— Six Little Bunkers at Aunt Jo's • Laura Lee Hope

... tropical flower imparted to the beloved form in his memory, and thus it somehow both brightened and wronged her. This had happened not long before her death; and whenever, in the subsequent years, this plant had brought its annual flower, it had proved a kind of talisman to bring up the image of Bessie, radiant with this glow that did not really belong to her naturally passive beauty, quickly interchanging with another image of her form, with the snow of death on cheek and forehead. This reminiscence had remained among the things of which the Doctor ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 • Various

... voted two days before. Even the fair sex considered it necessary to support the opposition movement. The matrons of Moscow, in a humble petition to the Empress, declared that they could not continue to bring up their children properly in the existing state of unconstitutional lawlessness, and their view was endorsed in several provincial towns by the schoolboys, who marched through the streets in procession, and ...
— Russia • Donald Mackenzie Wallace

... convent is a seminary. I have no right to bring up my children in my own house and ...
— The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 1 (of 6) - The Ancient Regime • Hippolyte A. Taine


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