Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - bring up

1. When someone brings up a child, they look after it until it is an adult. If someone has been brought up in a certain place or with certain attitudes, they grew up in that place or were taught those attitudes when they were growing up. She brought up four children... His grandmother and his father brought him up... We’d been brought up to think that borrowing money was bad... I was brought up a Methodist. = raise PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P, be V-ed P to-inf, be V-ed P n 2. If you bring up a particular subject, you introduce it into a discussion or conversation. He brought up a subject rarely raised during the course of this campaign... Why are you bringing it up now? = raise PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P 3. If someone brings up food or wind, food or air is forced up from their stomach through their mouth. It’s hard for the baby to bring up wind. PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron)