# bring up

Pronunciation: say "bring UP" /ˌbɹɪŋ ˈʌp/

## Phrasal verb

1. To mention something, such as a subject, a problem, or a question.
   - Simple: To start talking about a subject, or to mention it.
   - _Nobody at the meeting wanted to bring up the budget cuts._
   - _He kept bringing it up, even after we asked him to drop the subject._
2. To raise or rear children, caring for them as they grow.
   - Simple: To take care of a child until they are grown up.
   - _She was brought up by her aunt in a small town in Maine._
   - _Many families now bring up their children speaking two languages at home._
3. To bring someone or something from a lower place or position to a higher one.
   - Simple: To carry or take something from a lower place to a higher one.
   - _Could you bring up two more chairs from the basement?_
   - _The crane brought up the steel beams to the top floor one at a time._
4. To uncover something or bring it out of obscurity, or to bring something such as a memory back to the surface.
   - Simple: To find something that was hidden, or to bring back something from the past, like a memory.
   - _Digging through the county archive brought up a letter nobody had read in fifty years._
   - _Old photos can bring up feelings you thought were long gone._
5. To vomit, bringing food or other matter up from the stomach.
   - Simple: To throw up food from your stomach.
   - _He was so seasick that he brought up his breakfast over the rail._
   - _Dogs that eat grass will sometimes bring it up a few minutes later._
6. To charge someone and put them on trial, or more broadly to bring someone before an authority to be judged or examined.
   - Simple: To accuse someone of a crime and put them on trial, or send them to be judged.
   - _The officers were brought up on misconduct charges after the video surfaced._
   - _Prosecutors plan to bring the former mayor up on fraud charges next month._
7. To switch on or start a machine or system so that it is running.
   - Simple: To turn on a machine and get it working.
   - _It takes about ten minutes to bring up the servers after a power outage._
   - _The engineer brought up the main engines an hour before the ship left port._
8. To stop or interrupt something in progress, such as a flow of speech or a steady movement.
   - Simple: To make someone or something stop while it is moving or going on.
   - _The rope went tight and brought the climber up short a few feet below the ledge._
   - _Her blunt question brought him up short in the middle of his speech._
9. To reach a particular score, especially a milestone such as a century.
   - Simple: To reach a certain score in cricket, often an important one.
   - _The captain brought up his century with a six over long-on._
   - _A boundary off the final ball was enough to bring up the team's highest total of the season._
10. In electronics, to test a newly assembled printed circuit board for faults.
   - Simple: To test a new circuit board to find any mistakes in it.
   - _The team spent a week bringing up the prototype board before it went to the testing lab._
   - _Engineers bring up each new board revision slowly, one section at a time._
11. To prepare a vein so that an injection can be given into it.
   - Simple: To get a vein ready so a needle can go into it.
   - _Squeezing a soft ball for a minute can help bring up a vein before a shot._
   - _The paramedic warmed the patient's arm and brought up a vein on the second try._

## Phrasal verb

12. To level type, making it ready for printing by building it up with overlays. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: To make the letters used in printing even and ready to print, by adding thin layers.
   - _The pressman spent an hour bringing up the type with thin sheets of paper before the first proof._
   - _Low letters print pale unless you bring up the type to an even height._

## Origin

From Middle English bring up, a dissimilated form of Middle English upbringen (“to bring up, raise”). It is a doublet of upbring.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/bring-up (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).