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  • (verb) result or issue

    "A slight unpleasantness arose from this discussion"

    synonyms : arise

  • (verb) gather or bring together

    "muster the courage to do something", "she rallied her intellect", "Summon all your courage"

    synonyms : muster , muster up , rally , summon

    He couldn’t muster the courage to ask her out on a date. -added by naila_inlas

  • (verb) gather (money or other resources) together over time

    "She had scraped together enough money for college", "they scratched a meager living"

    synonyms : scrape , scrape up , scratch

  • (verb) start running, functioning, or operating

    "the lights went on", "the computer came up"

    synonyms : come on , go on

  • (verb) bring forth, usually something desirable

    "The committee came up with some interesting recommendations"

  • (verb) move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody

    "He came singing down the road", "Come with me to the Casbah", "come down here!", "come out of the closet!", "come into the room"

    synonyms : come

  • (verb) move upward

    "The fog lifted", "The smoke arose from the forest fire", "The mist uprose from the meadows"

    synonyms : arise , go up , lift , move up , rise , uprise

  • (verb) come up, of celestial bodies

    "The sun also rises", "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled...", "Jupiter ascends"

    synonyms : ascend , rise , uprise

  • (verb) come to the surface

    synonyms : rise , rise up , surface

  • (verb) get something or somebody for a specific purpose

    "I found this gadget that will serve as a bottle opener", "I got hold of these tools to fix our plumbing", "The chairman got hold of a secretary on Friday night to type the urgent letter"

    synonyms : find , get hold , line up

  • (verb) originate or come into being

    "a question arose"

    synonyms : arise , bob up

  • (verb) be mentioned

    "These names came up in the discussion"

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.


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