build up
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～ prepare oneself for a military confrontation; "The U.S. is girding for a conflict in the Middle East"; "troops are building up on the Iraqi border"
build up
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～ form or accumulate steadily; "Resistance to the manager's plan built up quickly"; "Pressure is building up at the Indian-Pakistani border"
catch up
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～ reach the point where one should be after a delay; "I caught up on my homework"
build up
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～ enlarge, develop, or increase by degrees or in stages; "build up your savings"
brush up
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～ refresh one's memory; "I reviewed the material before the test"
build up
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～ change the use of and make available or usable; "develop land"; "The country developed its natural resources"; "The remote areas of the country were gradually built up"
build up
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～ bolster or strengthen; "We worked up courage"; "build up confidence"; "ramp up security in the airports"
bob up
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～ originate or come into being; "a question arose"
bump up
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～ increase or raise; "OPEC bumped up the price of oil"
bolster up
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～ support and strengthen; "bolster morale"
catch up
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～ learn belatedly; find out about something after it happened; "I'm trying to catch up with the latest developments in molecular biology"
burn up
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～ burn brightly; "Every star seemed to flare with new intensity"
brush up
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～ bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state; "polish your social manners"
block up
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～ render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road"
bubble up
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～ move upwards in bubbles, as from the effect of heating; also used metaphorically; "Gases bubbled up from the earth"; "Marx's ideas have bubbled up in many places in Latin America"
carve up
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～ separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I"
burn up
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～ burn completely; be consumed or destroyed by fire; "The hut burned down"; "The mountain of paper went up in flames"
clog up
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～ become or cause to become obstructed; "The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"; "The water pipe is backed up"
come up
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～ get something or somebody for a specific purpose; "I found this gadget that will serve as a bottle opener"; "I got hold of these tools to fix our plumbing"; "The chairman got hold of a secretary on Friday night to type the urgent letter"