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to look up (third-person singular simple present looks up, present participle looking up, simple past and past participle looked up)
- (intransitive) To look in an upwards manner
- We stayed up late to look up at the stars.
- (intransitive) (idiomatic) To have a bright future
- Things started looking up after Jim moved back in with his parents.
- (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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