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OPEN UP
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make available
Example:
This opens up new possibilities
Synonyms:
open; open up
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "open up" is one way to...):
afford; give; yield (be the cause or source of)
Cause:
open; open up (become available)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Become available
Example:
an opportunity opened up
Synonyms:
open; open up
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "open up" is one way to...):
arise; come up (result or issue)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 3
Meaning:
Talk freely and without inhibition
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "open up" is one way to...):
mouth; speak; talk; utter; verbalise; verbalize (express in speech)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Sentence example:
Sam and Sue open up
Antonym:
close up (refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Cause to open or to become open
Example:
Mary opened the car door
Synonyms:
open; open up
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Cause:
open; open up (become open)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "open up"):
unbar (remove a bar from (a door))
break open (open with force)
click open (open with a clicking sound)
reopen (open again or anew)
unlock (open the lock of)
unbolt (undo the bolt of)
unseal (break the seal of)
uncork (draw the cork from (bottles))
jimmy; lever; prise; prize; pry (to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open)
breach; gap (make an opening or gap in)
lance (open by piercing with a lancet)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
They want to open up the doors
Sense 5
Meaning:
Become open
Example:
The door opened
Synonyms:
open; open up
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "open up" is one way to...):
change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "open up"):
unfasten (become undone or untied)
fly open (come open suddenly)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sentence example:
The doors open up
Sense 6
Meaning:
Open up an area or prepare a way
Example:
She pioneered a graduate program for women students
Synonyms:
open up; pioneer
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "open up" is one way to...):
innovate; introduce (bring something new to an environment)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 7
Meaning:
Start to operate or function or cause to start operating or functioning
Example:
open a business
Synonyms:
open; open up
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "open up"):
establish; found; launch; set up (set up or found)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
The business is going to open up
Context examples:
Alternatively, you may be at a friend’s party over this full moon period, and there will be something about this event that will stay with you afterwards, inspiring you to open up to new interests and friendships.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Your schedule will open up when delays and postponements arise, and that will lead to a slightly less hectic time in November, for on those days that suddenly have nothing scheduled, you can follow your own agenda.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
