bring up


verb(tr, adverb)
  1. to care for and train (a child); rear: we had been brought up to go to church

  2. to raise (a subject) for discussion; mention

  1. to vomit (food)

  2. (foll by against) to cause (a person) to face or confront

  3. (foll by to) to cause (something) to be of a required standard

Words Nearby bring up

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How to use bring up in a sentence

  • How shall we, how can we virtuously bring up our motherless little sister?

    The Daisy Chain | Charlotte Yonge
  • Do you think thats a good way to bring up girlsletting them go to work so early in life?

  • And say: Why did thy mother the lioness lie down among the lions, and bring up her whelps in the midst of young lions?

  • If an artisan has taken a son to bring up, and has caused him to learn his handicraft, no one has any claim.

    The Oldest Code of Laws in the World | Hammurabi, King of Babylon
  • His wife was trying to run the place and to bring up several children, whose condition had aroused the mother instinct in Helen.

    Mystery Ranch | Arthur Chapman

Other Idioms and Phrases with bring up

bring up

Raise from childhood, rear. For example, Bringing up children is both difficult and rewarding. [Late 1400s]

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