crop up
crop up verb: to occur, especially suddenly or unexpectedly.
Verb
crop up (third-person singular simple present crops up, present participle cropping up, simple past and past participle cropped up)
- To occur, especially suddenly or unexpectedly.
- We'll finish tonight if no problems crop up.
- Cares crop up in villas.1880, [Benjamin Disraeli], Endymion […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC
crop up meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada
crop up in Tamil
- to crop up, break out, appear
- கிளம்பு kiḷampu
crop up in Malayalam
- arise, happen, occur
- ഉയർന്നുവരുക, പെട്ടെന്നു കാണായ്വരുക, ഉദിക്കുക, സംഭവിക്കുക, ജാതമാകുക, സംജാതമാവുക
crop up in Kannada
- ಅನಿರೀಕ್ಷಿತವಾಗಿ ಉಂಟಾಗು, ತಲೆದೋರು, ಹಠಾತ್ತಾಗಿ ಕಾಣಬರು
Forms of crop up
| third-person singular present | crops up |
|---|---|
| present participle | cropping up |
| past participle | cropped up |
| past | cropped up |
Questions about crop up
- What does crop up mean?
- Crop up means to occur, especially suddenly or unexpectedly.
- What is crop up in Tamil?
- Crop up in Tamil is கிளம்பு (kiḷampu). See Crop up meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is crop up?
- Crop up is a verb.
- What is the past tense of crop up?
- The past tense of crop up is cropped up.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: crop up (page history and authors); கிளம்பு (Tamil) (page history and authors); crop up (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); crop up (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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