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FOLLOW UP
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Increase the effectiveness or success of by further action
Example:
The doctor followed up the surgery with radiation
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "follow up" is one way to...):
enhance (make better or more attractive)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
follow-up (a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment)
follow-up (an activity that continues something that has already begun or that repeats something that has already been done)
follow-up (a piece of work that exploits or builds on earlier work)
followup (a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment)
followup (an activity that continues something that has already begun or that repeats something that has already been done)
followup (a piece of work that exploits or builds on earlier work)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue
Example:
She followed up his recommendations with a written proposal
Synonyms:
carry out; follow out; follow through; follow up; go through with; implement; put through
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "follow up" is one way to...):
complete; finish (come or bring to a finish or an end)
Verb group:
accomplish; action; carry out; carry through; execute; fulfil; fulfill (put in effect)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "follow up"):
adhere (follow through or carry out a plan without deviation)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
follow-up (a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment)
follow-up (an activity that continues something that has already begun or that repeats something that has already been done)
follow-up (a piece of work that exploits or builds on earlier work)
followup (a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment)
followup (an activity that continues something that has already begun or that repeats something that has already been done)
followup (a piece of work that exploits or builds on earlier work)
Context examples:
And when people have recovered from acute kidney injury, they should promptly follow up with their doctor – and a kidney specialist to monitor their kidney function for long-term consequences related to progression of CKD.
(Acute kidney injury, chronic kidney disease each a risk of the other, NIH)
She had bound herself to do it, in such an hour of Mr. Knightley's absence, or when it came to the point her heart would have failed her, and she must have put it off; but Mr. Knightley was to come at such a time, and follow up the beginning she was to make.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
I had indeed levelled at that prominent feature as hard a blow as my knuckles could inflict; and when I saw that either that or my look daunted him, I had the greatest inclination to follow up my advantage to purpose; but he was already with his mama.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
