raking up

Verb

rake up (third-person singular simple present rakes up, present participle raking up, simple past and past participle raked up)

1. (ambitransitive, figuratively) To bring up or uncover (something), as embarrassing information, past misdeeds, etc.
2. (figuratively, obsolete, transitive) To cover up, to hide (like covering live embers by raking ashes over them).
   • As for those that will (by faults which charity hath raked up, or common honesty concealed) make themselves a name with the multitude, or, to draw their rude and beastly claps, care not whose living faces they intrench with their petulant styles, may they do it without a rival, for me! I choose...1606, Ben Jonson, Volpone, Dedication, in Gifford’s 1816 edition volume III pages 163–164
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rake.