roll up

roll up
verb
1. form into a cylinder by rolling (Freq. 1)
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Roll up the cloth

• Syn: ↑furl
• Hypernyms: ↑change shape, ↑change form, ↑deform
• Hyponyms: ↑douse, ↑reef, ↑bolt, ↑take in, ↑gather in, ↑brail
• Verb Group: ↑roll
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s

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Somebody ——s something

2. arrive in a vehicle: "He rolled up in a black Mercedes"
• Hypernyms: ↑arrive, ↑get, ↑come
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s PP

3. close (a car window) by causing it to move up, as with a handle
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she rolled up the window when it started to rain

• Hypernyms: ↑close, ↑shut
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

4. form a cylinder by rolling
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roll up a banner

• Syn: ↑wrap up
• Ant: ↑unfurl
• Hypernyms: ↑change surface
• Verb Group: ↑roll
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s

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Somebody ——s something

5. show certain properties when being rolled
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The carpet rolls unevenly

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dried-out tobacco rolls badly

• Syn: ↑roll
• Hypernyms: ↑change
• Verb Group: ↑wrap up, ↑furl
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s Adjective

6. make into a bundle
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he bundled up his few possessions

• Syn: ↑bundle, ↑bundle up
• Derivationally related forms: ↑bundle (for: ↑bundle)
• Hypernyms: ↑pack
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

7. get or gather together
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I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife

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She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis

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She rolled up a small fortune

• Syn: ↑collect, ↑accumulate, ↑pile up, ↑amass, ↑compile, ↑hoard
• Derivationally related forms: ↑compilation (for: ↑compile), ↑accumulative (for: ↑accumulate), ↑accumulation (for: ↑accumulate), ↑collection (for: ↑collect), ↑collecting (for: ↑collect)
• Hypernyms:
• Hyponyms:
↑run up, ↑corral, ↑collect, ↑pull in, ↑scrape, ↑scrape up, ↑scratch, ↑come up, ↑lump, ↑chunk, ↑bale, ↑catch, ↑fund
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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informal arrive in a vehicle

we rolled up at the same time

■ informal roll a cigarette, esp. a cannabis cigarette

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roll up [phrasal verb]
1 roll up (something) or roll (something) up
1 a : to move (something) up especially by turning a handle

She rolled up the car window.

1 b : to fold up the ends of (something, such as a shirt sleeve or pants leg) to make it shorter

She rolled up her jeans and stepped into the water.

2 informal : to arrive at a place in a vehicle

Celebrities rolled up in their limousines.

— used to invite people to gather around to see a show or to buy things

Roll up, roll up [=(chiefly US) step right up]–you won't find cheaper watches anywhere else!

see also ↑roll 4c, 5 (above), 1
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Main Entry: ↑roll

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ˌroll ˈup derived
(informal) to arrive

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Bill finally rolled up two hours late.

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Roll up! Roll up!

(= used to invite people who are passing to form an audience)
Main entry: ↑rollderived

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