verb
1. result or issue
e.g. A slight unpleasantness arose from this discussion
Synonym: arise
2. gather or bring together
e.g. muster the courage to do something
she rallied her intellect
Summon all your courage
Synonym: musterrallysummonmuster up
3. gather (money or other resources) together over time
e.g. She had scraped together enough money for college
they scratched a meager living
Synonym: scrapescrape upscratch
4. start running, functioning, or operating
e.g. the lights went on
the computer came up
Synonym: go oncome on
5. bring forth, usually something desirable
e.g. The committee came up with some interesting recommendations
6. move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
e.g. He came singing down the road
Come with me to the Casbah
come down here!
come out of the closet!
come into the room
Synonym: come
7. move upward
e.g. The fog lifted
The smoke arose from the forest fire
The mist uprose from the meadows
Synonym: riseliftarisemove upgo upuprise
8. come up, of celestial bodies
e.g. The sun also rises
The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled...
Jupiter ascends
Synonym: riseupriseascend
9. come to the surface
Synonym: surfacerise uprise
10. get something or somebody for a specific purpose
e.g. I found this gadget that will serve as a bottle opener
I got hold of these tools to fix our plumbing
The chairman got hold of a secretary on Friday night to type the urgent letter
Synonym: line upget holdfind
11. originate or come into being
e.g. a question arose
Synonym: arisebob up
12. be mentioned
e.g. These names came up in the discussion