OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 29249

bring up

Meanings (ES + gloss)
alzar • levantar • traer [desde abajo]
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bring, up: To bring from a lower to a higher position.
"[…]and as Mr. H., with his long purse and his willingness to receive hints, is no bad card in the game, he has been brought up to Abbotsford for a week; his taciturnity has long a…
When you're in the basement, can you bring up the paints?
compartir con • mencionar • mentar • plantear • sacar a colación • sacar a relucir • sacar el tema • traer a colación
To mention.
Don't bring up politics if you want to have a quiet conversation with that guy.
criar
To raise or rear (children).
In the present writer's opinion there was no greater and more successful locomotive engineer in the country, during the first quarter-century, than George Jackson Churchward of the…
‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears al…
detener • interrumpir
To stop or interrupt a flow or steady motion.
"No," Maeniel shouted, "No!" trying to distract the man, and lunged toward him. The chain on his ankle brought him up short and he fell on his face.
"[…]Mr. Wolfe, I beg you—I beg of you—" I was sure she was going to cry and I didn't want her to. But Wolfe brusquely brought her up: "That's all, Miss Barstow.[…]"
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