bring up

verb

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

3. to vomit (food)

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

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

Idioms and Phrases

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

Introduce into discussion, mention, as in Let's not bring up the cost right now . [Second half of 1800s]

Vomit, as in She still felt sick but couldn't bring up anything . This usage was first recorded in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719).

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