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Bring up

verb

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"

Bring up. Synonyms: nurture, parent, raise, rear. "Bring up children"

Promote from a lower position or rank.

Raise from a lower to a higher position. Synonyms: elevate, get up, lift, raise. "Lift a load"

Cause to come to a sudden stop.

Put forward for consideration or discussion. Synonym: raise. "Bring up an unpleasant topic"

Make reference to. Synonyms: advert, cite, mention, name, refer.

Cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes. Synonyms: boot, reboot.

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"Bring up" Quotes from Famous Books

... were going to Texas to get another start? Texas is a country in which all men bring up who have made a failure, and you were bound ...

— Elam Storm, The Wolfer - The Lost Nugget • Harry Castlemon

... the outskirts of the little town the unmistakable sound of El Rey's iron-shod hoofs brought heads into doors, children at the house corners to look upon her. She came down the main street at a smart clip, to bring up with a slide at the hitch-rail before Baston's store where the monthly mail was handled. There were horses tied there, and among them she saw what caused her to look twice with a narrowing of her keen eyes—a huge, raw-boned, black, rusty and slug-headed, ...

— Tharon of Lost Valley • Vingie E. Roe

... family since. I have been a hunter and a trapper, a guide and a soldier, and an interpreter; but for the last twenty-five years I have been away from towns and cities, and have lived altogether in the woods. The more man lives by himself, the more he likes it, and yet now and then circumstances bring up the days of his youth, and make him hesitate whether it be best or ...

— The Settlers in Canada • Frederick Marryat

... Spartans, tho they acted with the Spirit which I am here speaking of, carried it much farther than what I propose: Among them it was not lawful for the Father himself to bring up his Children after his own Fancy. As soon as they were seven Years old they were all listed in several Companies, and disciplined by the Publick. The old Men were Spectators of their Performances, who often raised Quarrels among them, and set them at Strife with one another, that by those ...

— The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele

... increase of work. In addition to defending Balaklava, it was upon them that the brunt of any assault by a Russian army acting in the field would fall. They would have an equal share of the trench-work, and had five miles to bring up their siege guns and stores; whereas the French harbor was ...

— Jack Archer • G. A. Henty

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