Definition: result or issue
Usage: A slight unpleasantness arose from this discussion
Similar words: come about, take place, go on, hap, happen, fall out, pass, pass off, occur
Definition: come to pass
Usage: What is happening?; The meeting took place off without an incidence; Nothing occurred that seemed important
Synonyms: come up, summon, muster, muster up, rally
Definition: gather or bring together
Usage: muster the courage to do something; she rallied her intellect; Summon all your courage
Similar words: collect, pull together, garner, gather
Definition: assemble or get together
Usage: gather some stones; pull your thoughts together
Synonyms: come up, scrape, scrape up, scratch
Definition: gather (money or other resources) together over time
Usage: She had scraped together enough money for college; they scratched a meager living
Similar words: hoard, roll up, pile up, amass, accumulate, collect, compile
Definition: get or gather together
Usage: I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife; She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis; She rolled up a small fortune
Synonyms: come on, come up, go on
Definition: start running, functioning, or operating
Usage: the lights went on; the computer came up
Similar words: start, go, get going
Definition: begin or set in motion
Usage: I start at eight in the morning; Ready, set, go!
Synonyms: come up
Definition: bring forth, usually something desirable
Usage: The committee came up with some interesting recommendations
Similar words: bring forth, generate
Definition: bring into existence
Usage: The new manager generated a lot of problems; The computer bug generated chaos in the office; The computer generated this image; The earthquake generated a tsunami
Definition: move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
Usage: He came singing down the road; Come with me to the Casbah; come down here!; come out of the closet!; come into the room
Similar words: go, locomote, travel, move
Definition: change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
Usage: How fast does your new car go?; We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus; The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect; The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell; news travelled fast
Synonyms: lift, come up, rise, move up, go up, arise, uprise
Definition: move upward
Usage: The fog lifted; The smoke arose from the forest fire; The mist uprose from the meadows
Similar words: go, locomote, travel, move
Definition: change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
Usage: How fast does your new car go?; We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus; The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect; The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell; news travelled fast
Synonyms: come up, uprise, rise, ascend
Definition: come up, of celestial bodies
Usage: The sun also rises; The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled...; Jupiter ascends
Similar words: lift, come up, rise, move up, go up, arise, uprise
Definition: move upward
Usage: The fog lifted; The smoke arose from the forest fire; The mist uprose from the meadows
Synonyms: come up, surface, rise, rise up
Definition: come to the surface
Definition: travel up, "We ascended the mountain"
Usage: go up a ladder; The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope
Synonyms: come up, find, get hold, line up
Definition: get something or somebody for a specific purpose
Usage: 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
Definition: come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
Usage: She got a lot of paintings from her uncle; They acquired a new pet; Get your results the next day; Get permission to take a few days off from work
Synonyms: arise, come up, bob up
Definition: originate or come into being
Usage: a question arose
Synonyms: come up
Definition: be mentioned
Usage: These names came up in the discussion
Definition: result or issue
Usage: A slight unpleasantness arose from this discussion