When someone brings up a child, they look after it until it is an adult. If someone has been brought up in a certain place or with certain attitudes, they grew up in that place or were taught those attitudes when they were growing up.
She brought up four children. [VERBPARTICLE noun]
His grandmother and his father brought him up. [VERB noun PARTICLE]
He was brought up in North Yorkshire. [beV-ed P prep/adv]
We'd been brought up to think that borrowing money was bad. [beV-ed P to-inf]
I was brought up a Methodist. [beVERB-ed PARTICLE noun]
2. phrasal verb
If you bring up a particular subject, you introduce it into a discussion or conversation.
He brought up a subject rarely raised during the course of this campaign. [VERBPARTICLE noun]
Why are you bringing it up now? [VERB noun PARTICLE]
3. phrasal verb
If someone brings up food or wind, food or air is forced up from their stomach through their mouth.
It's hard for the baby to bring up wind. [VERBPARTICLE noun]
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bring up in British English
verb(tr, adverb)
1.
to care for and train (a child); rear
we had been brought up to go to church
2.
to raise (a subject) for discussion; mention
3.
to vomit (food)
4. (foll by against)
to cause (a person) to face or confront
5. (foll by to)
to cause (something) to be of a required standard
bring up in American English
1.
to take care of during infancy and childhood by educating, nurturing, training, etc.; raise; rear
2.
to introduce, as into discussion
3.
a.
to cough up
b.
to vomit
4.
to stop abruptly
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Examples of 'bring up' in a sentence
bring up
She is naturally very funny and can riff amusingly on almost any subject we bring up.
The Sun (2013)
It is far more damaging being brought up in a hostile environment with warring parents.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
A bit of fish, fresh vegetables... It's how I was brought up.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
In other languages
bring up
British English: bring up /brɪŋ ʌp/ VERB
If you bring up a child, you look after it until it is grown up.
She brought up four children.
American English: bring up
Arabic: يُرَبِّي
Brazilian Portuguese: criar filhos
Chinese: 培养
Croatian: odgojiti
Czech: vychovat
Danish: opdrage
Dutch: opvoeden
European Spanish: criar
Finnish: kasvattaa lapsia tms.
French: élever
German: großziehen
Greek: ανατρέφω
Italian: educare
Japanese: 育てる
Korean: 키우다
Norwegian: ta opp
Polish: wychować
European Portuguese: criar filhos
Romanian: a crește
Russian: воспитывать
Latin American Spanish: sacar adelante
Swedish: ta up
Thai: เลี้ยงดู
Turkish: yetiştirmek
Ukrainian: виховувати
Vietnamese: nuôi dưỡng
All related terms of 'bring up'
bring up the rear
to be at the back in a procession , race , etc
pull/bring sb up short
If something pulls you up short or brings you up short , it makes you suddenly stop what you are doing.
to bring up the rear
If a person or vehicle is bringing up the rear , they are the last person or vehicle in a moving line of them.
bring someone up to speed
to give someone all the latest information about something
bring something up to speed
to make something reach its highest level of efficiency
Chinese translation of 'bring up'
bring up
vt
(= rear)[child]抚(撫)养(養) (fǔyǎng)
[question, subject]提出 (tíchū)
(inf, = vomit)[food]呕(嘔)出 (ǒuchū)
See bring
All related terms of 'bring up'
to bring sb up to date
告知某人最新动(動)态(態) gàozhī mǒurén zuìxīn dòngtài
to bring sth up to date
( correspondence, information ) 更新某物 gēngxīn mǒuwù
bring round
( unconscious person ) 使苏(甦)醒 shǐ sūxǐng
bring out
( publish, produce : book, album ) 出版 chūbǎn
bring on
( illness, pain ) 导(導)致 dǎozhì
bring off
( attempt, plan ) 完成 wánchéng
bring in
( law, system, object, person ) 引进(進) yǐnjìn ⇒ It would be a mistake to bring in an outsider. → 引一个局外人进来会是一个错误。 Yǐn yī gè júwàirén jìnlái huì shì yī gè cuòwù.
bring forward
( meeting ) 提前 tíqián
bring forth
( frm ) 取出 qǔchū
bring down
( government ) 使 ... 倒台(臺) shǐ ... dǎotái
bring back
( return ) 带(帶)回来(來) dài huílái ⇒ She brought my book back. → 她把我的书带回来了。 Tā bǎ wǒ de shū dài huílái le.