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shoot up
verb as in elevate
verb as in maturate
verb as in mature
verb as in mushroom
verb as in raise
Strong matches
verb as in skyrocket
verb as in soar
verb as in spring
verb as in sprout
verb as in stretch
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in thrive
verb as in upraise
Example Sentences
The prevailing wisdom has it that narcos don't shoot up the places where they invest their money.
Dickinson declined to say the name of his strip club, for fear that someone may “go there and try to shoot up the place.”
A Minnesota politician claimed most NBA teams could be shutdown and we would only notice because crime would shoot up.
I had watched her shoot up into a slender but exquisitely formed woman from a frail, awkward child.
Unfortunately, when Oceana residents discovered how to shoot up Suboxone, a black market developed for the drug.
Other children would shoot up like corn stalks, but I stayed right where I had been in the months and years past.
You see, we had no town to shoot up, so we just punctured the scenery.
An honorable member who had been expelled for the use of too strong language, returned to "shoot up" the House.
The posts are poles cut from the trees' branches and when stuck in the ground they shoot up so rapidly that they soon are trees.
Such beginnings made people think that he should soon shoot up into a giant.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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