brought up
brought up is the simple past and past participle of bring up.
Meaning of bring up
Verb
bring up (third-person singular simple present brings up, present participle bringing up, simple past and past participle brought up)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bring, up: To bring from a lower to a higher position.
- When you're in the basement, can you bring up the paints?
- To mention.
- Don't bring up politics if you want to have a quiet conversation with that guy.
- To raise or rear (children).
- In the present writer's opinion there was no greater and more successful locomotive engineer in the country, during the first quarter-century, than George Jackson Churchward of the Great Western Railway. This statement is made without prejudice, for I was brought up on the other line extending from...1957 July, C. Hamilton Ellis, “Six Decades of Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 471
- To uncover, to bring from obscurity; to resurface (e.g. a memory)
- A short Internet search brought up some amazing details of this story.
- Synonyms:
- bring back
- To turn on power or start, as of a machine.
- Wait a minute while I bring up my computer.
- To check (a newly-assembled printed circuit board) for errors.
- Anyone who's been tasked with bringing up a board knows how trying it is.
Questions about brought up
- What is brought up the simple past and past participle of?
- Brought up is the simple past and past participle of bring up.
Words near brought up in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: brought up (page history and authors); bring up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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