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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
That’s when one of the masked men ran up to the vehicle, shot into the car and narrowly missed the driver.
In the run up to Christmas last year, Mark Hammond was inspired to organise a memorable gift for his wife of over 50 years.
That margin may sound decisive — but it can largely be accounted for by three wildly gerrymandered states where the GOP ran up big numbers.
Harden’s five-yard touchdown run up the middle, the Bruins were in position to take control on their next possession.
And if you’re one of the many Americans who lost sleep in the run up to the election, you may not be sleeping much better now that it’s over.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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