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verb (tr, adverb)

to care for and train (a child); rearwe had been brought up to go to church

to raise (a subject) for discussion; mention

to vomit (food)

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

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

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Words nearby bring up

bring to light, bring to mind, bring to one's knees, bring to pass, bring to terms, bring up, bring up the rear, bring up to date, brinjal, brink, Brinkley

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How to use bring up in a sentence

And visitors can bring up to $100 worth of Cuban cigars back to the U.S. with them.
Obama Realizes What 10 Presidents Didn’t: Isolating Cuba Doesn’t Work|Christopher Dickey|December 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
What better way to bring up a serious issue without commandeering the meal?
How to Make It Through Thanksgiving Alive|Lizzie Crocker|November 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Another study gender-pay-gap truthers bring up is one that found that young women in some cities are actually paid more than men.
The Gender-Pay Gap: It’s Real, and Yes, It’s Sexism|Monica Potts|September 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
One press of a button and the app will bring up driving directions to a safer location.
The Israeli App Red Alert Saves Lives—but It Just Might Drive You Nuts|Itay Hod|July 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST

I was debating whether to bring up Chuck Norris or Scientology first, and I went with Chuck Norris.
Paul Haggis on Scientology, the ‘Crash’ Oscar, and ‘Third Person’|Kevin Fallon|June 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
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?
The Girls of Central High on the Stage|Gertrude W. Morrison
And say: Why did thy mother the lioness lie down among the lions, and bring up her whelps in the midst of young lions?
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
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]

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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