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come up

English

  1. 🔊 bring forth, usually something desirable
    “The committee came up with some interesting recommendations”
  2. 🔊 be mentioned
    “These names came up in the discussion”
  3. 🔊 result or issue
    “A slight unpleasantness arose from this discussion”
  4. 🔊 start running, functioning, or operating
    “the lights went on”
  5. 🔊 move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
    “He came singing down the road”
  6. 🔊 come up, of celestial bodies
    “The sun also rises”
  7. 🔊 come to the surface
  8. 🔊 originate or come into being
    “a question arose”
  9. 🔊 get something or somebody for a specific purpose
    “I found this gadget that will serve as a bottle opener”
  10. 🔊 gather or bring together
    “muster the courage to do something”
  11. 🔊 gather (money or other resources) together over time
    “She had scraped together enough money for college”
  12. 🔊 move upward
    “The fog lifted”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 sobrevenir to come up, arise, come forth, be brought about

Similar words

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