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take up
English
- 🔊 pursue or resume“take up a matter for consideration”
- 🔊 adopt“take up new ideas”
- 🔊 turn one's interest to“He took up herpetology at the age of fifty”
- 🔊 take up time or space“take up the slack”
- 🔊 return to a previous location or condition“The painting resumed its old condition when we restored it”
- 🔊 take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption
- 🔊 accept“The cloth takes up the liquid”
- 🔊 begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job“Take up a position”
- 🔊 take up as if with a sponge
- 🔊 occupy or take on“He assumes the lotus position”
- 🔊 take up and practice as one's own
- 🔊 take out or up with or as if with a scoop“scoop the sugar out of the container”
- 🔊 take in, also metaphorically“The sponge absorbs water well”