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Word Frequency: 6.0

Definitions

1.verbTo have better prospects.

"Things started looking up after Jim moved back in with his parents."

2.verbTo obtain information about something from a source (chiefly textual sources) by reading or looking.

"I didn't know what a mitochondrion was until I looked it up in a dictionary."

3.verbTo track down or search for (someone that one used to know).

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