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Verb: come up
  1. Bring forth, usually something desirable
    "The committee came up with some interesting recommendations"
     
  2. Result or issue
    - arise
     
  3. Move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
    - come
     
  4. Come to the surface
    - surface, rise up, rise
     
  5. Originate or come into being
    - arise, bob up
     
  6. Move upward
    - rise, lift, arise, move up, go up, uprise
     
  7. Be mentioned
    "These names came up in the discussion"
     
  8. Start running, functioning, or operating
    "the computer came up"
    - go on, come on
     
  9. Get something or somebody for a specific purpose
    - line up, get hold, find
     
  10. Come up, of celestial bodies
    - rise, uprise, ascend
     
  11. Gather (money or other resources) together over time
    - scrape, scrape up, scratch
     
  12. Gather or bring together
    - muster, rally, summon, muster up

Derived forms: came up, comes up, come up, coming up

Type of: accumulate, acquire, amass, ascend, become, bring forth, collect, come about, compile, fall out, garner, gather, generate, get, get going, go, go on, go up, hap, happen, hoard, locomote, move, occur, pass, pass off, pile up, pull together, roll up, start, take place, travel