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Open up   /ˈoʊpən əp/   Listen
Open up

verb
1.
Cause to open or to become open.  Synonym: open.
2.
Become available.  Synonym: open.
3.
Make available.  Synonym: open.
4.
Open up an area or prepare a way.  Synonym: pioneer.
5.
Start to operate or function or cause to start operating or functioning.  Synonym: open.
6.
Become open.  Synonym: open.
7.
Talk freely and without inhibition.






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"Open up" Quotes from Famous Books



... direction of business will not open up the adventure with its stimulating factors to its subservient labor force, unless it happens that the present methods fail, in time, to carry forward industrial enterprise on a profit-making basis; or unless labor develops the power which springs from desire for creative experience, to ...
— Creative Impulse in Industry - A Proposition for Educators • Helen Marot

... few months previously, three of the Kri women, and the Kri Indians who belonged to Kellsey's party were bent, above all things, on attacking the Newatamipoets and punishing them for this outrage. Kellsey only wished to open up peaceful relations with them and create a great trade in furs with the Hudson's Bay Company, so he kept pleading with the Indians not to go to war with the Newatamipoets. On this journey, however, one of the Kri Indians fell ill and died. The next day the body was burnt with much ceremony—first ...
— Pioneers in Canada • Sir Harry Johnston

... labour simply resulted in increasing the burden of labour. The appetite of the World-Market grew with what it fed on: the countries within the ring of 'civilisation' (that is, organised misery) were glutted with the abortions of the market, and force and fraud were used unsparingly to 'open up' countries outside that pale. This process of 'opening up' is a strange one to those who have read the professions of the men of that period and do not understand their practice; and perhaps shows us at its worst the great vice of the nineteenth century, the use of hypocrisy and cant to ...
— News from Nowhere - or An Epoch of Rest, being some chapters from A Utopian Romance • William Morris

... world, the human sea:—towards IT do I now throw out my golden angle-rod and say: Open up, thou human abyss! ...
— Thus Spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None • Friedrich Nietzsche

... if one needed more company than chickens and a cat, satisfied all her desires, particularly as it was accompanied by a snug little income of two hundred dollars a year, a meagre sum that seemed to open up mysterious avenues of joy to her starved, ...
— The Village Watch-Tower • (AKA Kate Douglas Riggs) Kate Douglas Wiggin


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