look up
Verb
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Verb
look up
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To have better prospects.
- Synonyms: get better, improve, Thesaurus:improve
- Things started looking up after Jim moved back in with his parents.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To obtain information about something from a source (chiefly textual sources) by reading or looking.
- Synonyms: consult
- I didn't know what a mitochondrion was until I looked it up in a dictionary.
- (transitive) To track down or search for (someone that one used to know).
- Synonyms: search, track down
- Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see look, up
- We stayed up late to look up at the stars.
- look someone up and down
- look up to
- lookup
- German: hochsehen, nach oben sehen
- Russian: смотре́ть вверх
- Russian: улучша́ться
- Spanish: mejorar
- French: chercher
- German: nachschlagen, nachsehen
- Italian: cercare
- Portuguese: buscar, pesquisar, consultar
- Russian: иска́ть
- Spanish: buscar
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