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).

Example Sentences

After being deprived of the strike by opening partner Jos Buttler for a while, he brought up his half-century off 19 deliveries and needed just 20 more to reach three figures.

From BBC

But I think it brings up an interesting question because the categories you were nominated in were under outstanding variety special.

From Los Angeles Times

It's a far cry from how she has brought up her own daughter, Aliyah, who works at the centre and is described as one of the driving forces there.

From BBC

Nearly all the women nodded in agreement when one brought up her struggle to focus on tasks or relax because of heat and noise.

From Los Angeles Times

The president scolded a reporter for bringing up his recent post to Truth Social, threatening an invasion of Chicago in a riff of 1979’s “Apocalypse Now.”

From Salon

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