1. Look after a child until it is an adult
   "bring up a family";
   - rear, raise, nurture, parent
    
2. Take from a lower to a higher position
   "bring up your hands";
   - raise, lift, elevate, get up
    
3. Promote from a lower position or rank
   "This player was brought up to the major league"
    
4. Put forward for consideration or discussion
   "bring up the question of promotions";
   - raise
    
5. Make reference to
   "he was brought up in connection with the invention";
   - mention, advert [rare], cite, name, refer
    
6. Summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
   "bring up spirits from the grave";
   - raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, call down, arouse, call forth
    
7. Come or cause to come to a sudden stop
   "The horse brought up sharply at the fence"; "The police officer brought up the speeding car"
    
8. Cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes
   "The technician brought up the system after the crash";
   - boot, reboot
    
9. Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
   "The patient brought up his last meal";
   - vomit, vomit up, purge, sick, cat [informal], be sick [Brit], disgorge, regorge [archaic], retch, barf [informal], spew [informal], spue [archaic], chuck [informal], upchuck [N. Amer, informal], honk [Brit, informal], regurgitate, throw up [informal], chuck up [Brit, informal], hurl [informal], keck [informal], vom [informal], boak [UK, dialect], boke [UK, dialect], chunder [Brit, informal], ralph [N. Amer, informal]

Derived forms: bringing up, brought up, brings up

Type of: advance, call up, care, displace, egest, elevate, eliminate, excrete, give care, have in mind, kick upstairs [informal], mean, move, pass, promote, raise, resuscitate, revive, stop, summon, think of, upgrade

Antonym: get down