come up

Verb

• gather or bring together
  • muster the courage to do something
    
  • she rallied her intellect
    
  • Summon all your courage
    

• 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 also rises
    
  • The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled...
    
  • Jupiter ascends
    

• 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
  • the lights went on
    
  • the computer came up
    

• be mentioned
  • These names came up in the discussion
    

• move upward
  • The fog lifted
    
  • The smoke arose from the forest fire
    
  • The mist uprose from the meadows
    

• originate or come into being
  • a question arose
    

• come to the surface

• move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
  • He came singing down the road
    
  • Come with me to the Casbah
    
  • come down here!
    
  • come out of the closet!
    
  • come into the room
    

• result or issue
  • A slight unpleasantness arose from this discussion
    

• bring forth, usually something desirable
  • The committee came up with some interesting recommendations
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  muster , rally , summon , muster up , scrape , scrape up , scratch , rise , uprise , ascend , line up , get hold , find , go on , come on , lift , arise , move up , go up , bob up , surface , rise up , come
• Antonyms: 
  set , go down , go under , go off , descend , fall , come down , go , go away , depart