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1
to move from a lower to a higher place or position
- please take up the blanket so I can look underneath it
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3
to take for one's own use (something originated by another)
- one cluster of fans started chanting the team name of the champions, and the crowd quickly took up the cry
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The first known use of take up was in the 14th century
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