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English

Verb

to look up (third-person singular simple present looks up, present participle looking up, simple past and past participle looked up)

  1. (intransitive) To look in an upwards manner
    We stayed up late to look up at the stars.
  2. (intransitive) (idiomatic) To have a bright future
    Things started looking up after Jim moved back in with his parents.
  3. (transitive) (idiomatic) To obtain information about something from a text source
    I didn't know what a mitochondrion was until I looked it up in a dictionary.

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