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Definition of Open up

1. Verb. Cause to open or to become open. "They want to open up the doors"; "Mary opened the car door"

2. Verb. Become available. "An opportunity opened up"

3. Verb. Make available. "This opens up new possibilities"

4. Verb. Open up an area or prepare a way. "She pioneered a graduate program for women students"

5. Verb. Start to operate or function or cause to start operating or functioning. "The business is going to open up "; "Open a business"

6. Verb. Become open. "The doors open up "; "The door opened"

7. Verb. Talk freely and without inhibition. "Sam and Sue open up"

Definition of Open up

1. Verb. (intransitive transitive) To open. ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive) To reveal oneself; to become communicative. ¹

3. Verb. (intransitive) To commence firing weapons. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Open Up

open skull fracture open society open someone's eyes open source open sourced open sources open sourcing open sunshine open system open the attack

open the face open the kimono open time open to(p) open tuberculosis open up (current term) open valley open valleys open water open waters

open weave open wound open wounds openabilities openability openable openbill opencast opencast mining opencut

Literary usage of Open up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"as they were about to open up missionary work in India under the auspices of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, marks an era in the ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"... lateral railways are in course of construction which will open up several fine wine-producing districts hitherto unavailable owing to want of roads. ..."

3. The Industrial Resources, Etc., of the Southern and Western States by James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow (1852)
"... State of the South : and their effect must be to open up new enterprises never sible to the future greatness of our state must indeed be stultified; ..."

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