stir up
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～ provoke or stir up; "incite a riot"; "set off great unrest among the people"
straighten up
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～ straighten oneself; "He drew himself up when he talked to his superior"
step up
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～ speed up; "let's rev up production"
sweep up
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～ take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own; "She embraced Catholicism"; "They adopted the Jewish faith"
sum up
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～ determine the sum of; "Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town"
swell up
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～ expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling"
sum up
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～ be a summary of; "The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper"
suck up
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～ take in, also metaphorically; "The sponge absorbs water well"; "She drew strength from the minister's words"
swot up
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～ study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam"
suck up
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～ ingratiate oneself to; often with insincere behavior; "She is playing up to the chairman"
suck up
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～ try to gain favor by cringing or flattering; "He is always kowtowing to his boss"
sum up
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～ give a summary (of); "he summed up his results"; "I will now summarize"
sweep up
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～ force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action; "They were swept up by the events"; "don't drag me into this business"
swoop up
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～ seize or catch with a swooping motion
swallow up
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～ enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter"