rake up

British  

verb

1. (tr, adverb) to revive, discover, or bring to light (something forgotten)

   to rake up an old quarrel

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rake up Idioms  

1. Revive, bring to light, especially something unpleasant, as in She was raking up old gossip. [Late 1500s]

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Example Sentences

It became the most-viewed YouTube video of all time in November 2020, at the height of the pandemic, after raking up seven billion views.

From BBC

"We got some really good ones of raking up and baling," Miss Burke said.

From BBC

Trash is raked up and put on conveyor belts to be dropped into a dump truck and hauled away to landfills.

From Seattle Times

Rant to those who feel they must quickly rake up every leaf that falls.

From Seattle Times

The giant planets brawl among themselves, too, competing to rake up excess material and grow more giant still, sometimes ejecting the unlucky losers from the system in a “last planets standing” melee.

From Scientific American