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When you look up something, you search through a lot of information, often in a book or something similar online, until you find the piece of information that you need. For example, people often use dictionaries to look up the meaning of words.
When I ask my grandmother about something, she always says I should look it up in the encyclopedia.Joe's mom looked up the phone number for the dentist.- similar words:
- hunt up, research, search for
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If you look someone up, you go to visit them after making sure of their address.
My mom promised she would look up her old friend in Chicago the next time she had a business meeting there. |
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If we say that things are looking up, we mean that things are getting better or there are signs that they will get better soon.
My dad says that his business is looking up this year. |
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