Words in english

• tense up — Verb – English ～ cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious; "he got a phone call from his lawyer that tensed him up"
• take up — Verb – English ～ adopt; "take up new ideas"
• Johnny-jump-up — Noun – English ～ common violet of the eastern United States with large pale blue or purple flowers resembling pansies
• Johnny-jump-up — Noun – English ～ a common and long cultivated European herb from which most common garden pansies are derived
• hang-up — Noun – English ～ an unforeseen obstacle
• hang-up — Noun – English ～ an emotional preoccupation
• higher-up — Noun – English ～ one of greater rank or station or quality
• high-up — Noun – English ～ an important or influential (and often overbearing) person
• heads-up — Noun – English ～ a warning message; "he sent a heads-up to the District Attorney"
• digging up — Noun – English ～ the act of digging something up out of the ground (especially a corpse) where it has been buried
• hypertext mark-up language — Noun – English ～ a set of tags and rules (conforming to SGML) for using them in developing hypertext documents
• jumping up and down — Noun – English ～ jumping in one spot (as in excitement); "the wailing and jumping up and down exhausted him"
• drying up — Noun – English ～ the process of extracting moisture
• get-up-and-go — Noun – English ～ enterprising or ambitious drive; "Europeans often laugh at American energy"
• giving up — Noun – English ～ a verbal act of admitting defeat
• giving up — Noun – English ～ the act of forsaking
• frame-up — Noun – English ～ an act that incriminates someone on a false charge
• foul-up — Noun – English ～ an embarrassing mistake
• follow-up — Noun – English ～ a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment
• follow-up — Noun – English ～ a piece of work that exploits or builds on earlier work; "his new software is a follow-up to the programs they started with"

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