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run up
verb as in add
verb as in charge
verb as in enrich
verb as in erect
Strong matches
verb as in jack
verb as in magnify
verb as in raise
Strong matches
verb as in raise
verb as in snowball
Strong matches
- advance
- aggrandize
- aggravate
- amplify
- annex
- augment
- boost
- broaden
- build
- burgeon
- deepen
- develop
- dilate
- distend
- double
- enhance
- enlarge
- exaggerate
- expand
- extend
- further
- grow
- inflate
- lengthen
- magnify
- mount
- pad
- progress
- prolong
- protract
- pullulate
- raise
- redouble
- reinforce
- rise
- sharpen
- soar
- spread
- strengthen
- supplement
- swarm
- teem
- thicken
- triple
- upsurge
- wax
verb as in throw up
verb as in upraise
Strong matches
verb as in uprear
Weak matches
- assemble
- bring about
- cobble up
- compose
- construct
- create
- effect
- elevate
- fabricate
- fashion
- fit together
- forge
- form
- found
- frame
- fudge together
- heighten
- hoist
- initiate
- institute
- join
- knock together
- lift
- make
- make up
- manufacture
- mount
- organize
- pitch
- plant
- prefabricate
- produce
- put together
- put up
- raise
- rear
- set up
- shape
- stand
- stand up
- throw together
- throw up
- upraise
noun as in curtain raiser
Example Sentences
But quite unlike the schmuck, and this is the fun part, they never run up the white flag; indeed quite the opposite.
Put this 65-pound backpack on and run up the hill nine or ten times.'
For inmates located outside the Los Angeles area, a wedding with Bensoussan can run up to $2,000 or $3,000.
Many of those gathering in the run-up to the grand jury decision wore hockey and tear gas masks to conceal their identity.
In the run-up to Tuesday, the national media groaned with opinion columns expressing our love-hate relationship with voting.
At that Farmer Green's cat began to run up and down between the rows of vegetables.
There won't be a day, inside or out of it, that I won't run up against every damnable meanness that human nature is capable of.
The stately building had been run up in a night, its feet set in sand, and the wonder was it was not lying across the avenue.
The committee decided to run up signal to shorten course and conclude at the first round.
As they went they saw the flames catch the rigging and run up the masts of the doomed frigate.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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