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run up
verb as in add
verb as in charge
verb as in enrich
verb as in erect
Strong matches
verb as in jack
verb as in magnify
verb as in raise
Strong matches
verb as in raise
verb as in snowball
Strong matches
- advance
- aggrandize
- aggravate
- amplify
- annex
- augment
- boost
- broaden
- build
- burgeon
- deepen
- develop
- dilate
- distend
- double
- enhance
- enlarge
- exaggerate
- expand
- extend
- further
- grow
- inflate
- lengthen
- magnify
- mount
- pad
- progress
- prolong
- protract
- pullulate
- raise
- redouble
- reinforce
- rise
- sharpen
- soar
- spread
- strengthen
- supplement
- swarm
- teem
- thicken
- triple
- upsurge
- wax
verb as in throw up
verb as in upraise
Strong matches
verb as in uprear
Weak matches
- assemble
- bring about
- cobble up
- compose
- construct
- create
- effect
- elevate
- fabricate
- fashion
- fit together
- forge
- form
- found
- frame
- fudge together
- heighten
- hoist
- initiate
- institute
- join
- knock together
- lift
- make
- make up
- manufacture
- mount
- organize
- pitch
- plant
- prefabricate
- produce
- put together
- put up
- raise
- rear
- set up
- shape
- stand
- stand up
- throw together
- throw up
- upraise
noun as in curtain raiser
Strongest matches
- lead-in
- warmup
Example Sentences
“I just had a surfer run up to the truck,” a lifeguard said on dispatch audio, “he’s saying there’s a dog that’s on the jetty.”
So, the tense process of the Treasury waiting on every bit of number crunching from the OBR will happen only in the run up to a full Budget.
In January, he expects “either upgrades in the run up to earnings season beginning in mid-January or big beats.”
In January, he expects “either upgrades in the run up to earnings season beginning in mid-January or big beats.”
It also runs up against more than a century of American conventional wisdom about fire safety.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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