shape up
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~ develop in a positive way; "He progressed well in school"; "My plants are coming along"; "Plans are shaping up"
shine up
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~ ingratiate oneself to; often with insincere behavior; "She is playing up to the chairman"
shake up
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~ shock physically; "Georgia was shaken up in the Tech game"
shake up
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~ change the arrangement or position of
set up
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~ produce; "The scientists set up a shock wave"
set up
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~ arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events; "arrange my schedule"; "set up one's life"; "I put these memories with those of bygone times"
set up
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~ put into a proper or systematic order; "arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order"
sell up
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~ sell or get rid of all one's merchandise
screw up
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~ make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
save up
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~ accumulate money for future use; "He saves half his salary"
scrape up
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~ gather (money or other resources) together over time; "She had scraped together enough money for college"; "they scratched a meager living"
screw up
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~ make more intense; "Emotions were screwed up"
scale up
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~ increase proportionally; "scale up the model"
scrub up
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~ wash thoroughly; "surgeons must scrub prior to an operation"
screw up
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~ twist into a strained configuration; "screw up one's face"
scrunch up
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~ make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic; "The dress got wrinkled"; "crease the paper like this to make a crane"
scrunch up
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~ sit on one's heels; "In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting"; "The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm"
sack up
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~ make as a net profit; "The company cleared $1 million"
scratch up
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~ cut the surface of; wear away the surface of