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[look up] {v.}

1. {informal} To improve in future chances; promise more success.

* /The first year was tough, but business looked up after that./

2. To search for; hunt for information about; find.

* /It is a good habit to look up new words in a dictionary./

3. To seek and find.

* /While he was in Chicago, Henry looked up a friend of college days./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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