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Roll up

verb

Form into a cylinder by rolling. Synonym: furl.

Get or gather together. Synonyms: accumulate, amass, collect, compile, hoard, pile up. "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis" , "She rolled up a small fortune"

Arrive in a vehicle:.

Make into a bundle. Synonyms: bundle, bundle up.

Close (a car window) by causing it to move up, as with a handle.

Form a cylinder by rolling. Synonym: wrap up.

Show certain properties when being rolled. Synonym: roll. "Dried-out tobacco rolls badly"

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"Roll up" Quotes from Famous Books

... to start!" exclaimed Douglas. "Mother, you give us some breakfast. Let's roll up some blankets and take some grub and get ...

— Judith of the Godless Valley • Honore Willsie

... was a loud report down near the valley camp. Men were seen running, as if from danger, and as the boys looked they saw a cloud of smoke roll up, and part of a side hill ...

— The Boy Ranchers - or Solving the Mystery at Diamond X • Willard F. Baker

... open with scissors. A faint, delicate odour of balsam, incense, and other aromatic drugs spread through the room like the odour of an apothecary's shop. The end of the bandage was then sought for, and when found, the mummy was placed upright to allow the operator to move freely around her and to roll up the endless band, turned to the yellow colour of ecru linen by the palm wine and ...

— The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 - The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt • Theophile Gautier

... Day of the Lord is at hand, at hand, His storms roll up the sky; The nations sleep starving on heaps of gold, The dreamers toss and sigh. The night is darkest before the morn, When the pain is sorest the child is born, And the Day of the Lord is ...

— The Measure of a Man • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

... another tune," returned Diurbanu, and he began to roll up his sleeves, like an executioner preparing to torture his victim. "You shall hear our plan. I will be perfectly honest with you. While a part of my forces conduct a feigned assault in the valley, and ...

— Manasseh - A Romance of Transylvania • Maurus Jokai

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