rake sth/sb up
— phrasal verb with rake uk/reɪk/us/reɪk/verb
to get the things or people you need, with difficulty or by looking in various places:
I'm trying to rake up some people to play football on Saturday - do you want to come along?
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Collecting and amassing
- a pack rat idiom
- accumulate
- amass
- assemble
- bank
- bunch
- collect
- collector's item
- compilation
- concentration
- garner
- gather
- glean
- harvest
- load up on sth
- numismatics
- philatelist
- philately
- scrape
- store
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