read up
/ (riːd) /
(adverb when intr, often foll by on) to acquire information about (a subject) by reading intensively
Words Nearby read up
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How to use read up in a sentence
Cardwell might have been well advised to read up on the entire enterprise.
Honey Boo Boo, Snake Oil, and Ebola: The Weird World of Young Living Essential Oils | Kent Sepkowitz | December 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt was this, which Malhi read up on during a family trip to India last year, which spurred on his work.
Had they not written the destiny of that babe by the desert spring in the same characters I read up there to-night?
Sarchedon | G. J. (George John) Whyte-MelvilleI left you to rest and read up La Dame aux Camélias; not meditate on mortality.
The Open Question | Elizabeth RobinsI thought yuh knew the horse—the way yuh read up his pedigree—till I seen yuh mount him.
The Happy Family | Bertha Muzzy Bower
If the subject cannot read up to the twenty-foot line, nearsightedness or astigmatism is indicated.
The Science of Human Nature | William Henry PyleI condescended to read up the guide-book, and put myself in the hands of the housekeeper.
Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino v.1/3, 1831-1835 | Dorothy Duchesse de Dino
Other Idioms and Phrases with read up
Study or learn by reading, as in I don't know much about childhood illnesses, but I can always read up on them. [First half of 1800s]
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