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Verb
- gather or bring together
- muster the courage to do something
- she rallied her intellect
- gather (money or other resources) together over time
- She had scraped together enough money for college
- they scratched a meager living
- come up, of celestial bodies
- The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled...
- 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
- start running, functioning, or operating
- be mentioned
- These names came up in the discussion
- move upward
- The smoke arose from the forest fire
- The mist uprose from the meadows
- originate or come into being
- move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
- He came singing down the road
- Come with me to the Casbah
- result or issue
- A slight unpleasantness arose from this discussion
- bring forth, usually something desirable
- The committee came up with some interesting recommendations