'open up' definitions:
Definition of 'open up'
From: WordNet
verb
verb
Become available; "an opportunity opened up" [syn: open, open up]
verb
Make available; "This opens up new possibilities" [syn: open, open up]
verb
Open up an area or prepare a way; "She pioneered a graduate program for women students" [syn: pioneer, open up]
verb
Start to operate or function or cause to start operating or functioning; "open a business" [syn: open, open up] [ant: close, close down, close up, fold, shut down]
verb
verb
Synonyms of 'open up'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acknowledge,
- admit,
- admit everything,
- advance,
- aid,
- air,
- allow,
- appear,
- avow,
- bare,
- branch,
- branch out,
- breach,
- break the seal,
- bring before,
- bring forward,
- bring to light,
- bring up,
- broach,
- chink,
- clear the way,
- cleave,
- come clean,
- come forth,
- commend to attention,
- concede,
- confess,
- cop a plea,
- crack,
- crevasse,
- cut,
- cut loose,
- cut open,
- deploy,
- develop,
- disclose,
- discover,
- dismask,
- dispart,
- disperse,
- display,
- divaricate,
- divide,
- divulge,
- draw the veil,
- ease,
- expand,
- expedite,
- explain,
- expose,
- extend,
- facilitate,
- fan,
- fan out,
- fissure,
- flare,
- fly open,
- give out,
- give way to,
- go all out,
- go flat out,
- go unrestrained,
- grant,
- grease,
- grease the ways,
- grease the wheels,
- hasten,
- have no secrets,
- help along,
- impart,
- incise,
- introduce,
- launch,
- lay bare,
- lay before,
- lay open,
- let daylight in,
- let go,
- let loose,
- let on,
- let out,
- loose,
- lubricate,
- make a motion,
- make clear,
- make known,
- make public,
- make way for,
- manifest,
- materialize,
- moot,
- move,
- offer a resolution,
- oil,
- ope,
- open,
- open fire,
- open the way,
- out with it,
- outspread,
- outstretch,
- overgrow,
- overrun,
- own,
- own up,
- part,
- pave the way,
- plead guilty,
- pose,
- postulate,
- prefer,
- prepare the way,
- propose,
- proposition,
- propound,
- put forth,
- put forward,
- put it to,
- put out,
- quicken,
- raise the curtain,
- ramify,
- recommend,
- remove friction,
- rent,
- reveal,
- rift,
- rip,
- rive,
- run interference for,
- run wild,
- separate,
- set before,
- set forth,
- show,
- show up,
- simplify,
- slit,
- smooth,
- smooth the way,
- soap the ways,
- speak out,
- speak up,
- speed,
- spill,
- spill it,
- spit it out,
- splay,
- split,
- spraddle,
- sprangle,
- sprawl,
- spread,
- spread like wildfire,
- spread out,
- spring open,
- start,
- strip bare,
- submit,
- suggest,
- swing open,
- take a stand,
- tap,
- tear,
- tear open,
- tell all,
- tell the truth,
- throw open,
- unbar,
- unblock,
- uncloak,
- unclog,
- uncover,
- undrape,
- unfold,
- unfurl,
- unjam,
- unkennel,
- unmask,
- unpack,
- unroll,
- unscreen,
- unsheathe,
- unshroud,
- unveil,
- unwrap,
- ventilate,
- widen
Words containing 'open up'
- can opener,
- open,
- open to,
- opened,
- opener,
- opening,
- openly,
- openness,
- out in the open,
- Counter opening,
- Gill opening,
- Letters open,
- Open Sesame,
- Open chain,
- Open policy,
- Open sight,
- Pew opener,
- Spherical opening,
- To break open,
- To fling open,
- To fly open,
- To lay open,
- To open the budget,
- To open the trenches,
- Under open sky,
- bottle opener,
- break open,
- cap opener,
- chess opening,
- click open,
- drop open,
- eye opener,
- eye opening,
- fall open,
- fly open,
- hold open,
- keep open,
- letter opener,
- neck opening,
- open account,
- open air,
- open and aboveboard,
- open circuit,
- open diapason,
- open door,
- open eyed,
- open fire,
- open fireplace,
- open forum,
- open fracture,
- open frame,
- open house,
- open interval,
- open letter,
- open market,
- open marriage,
- open minded,
- open order,
- open place,
- open primary,
- open sandwich,
- open secret,
- open shop,
- open society,
- open to question,
- open university,
- open weave,
- opening line,
- opening move,
- opening night,
- tin opener,
- wide open,
- with open arms,
- To keep open house,
- eye-opening,
- open classroom school,
- open-air,
- open-and-shut,
- open-chain,
- open-collared,
- open-ended,
- open-eyed,
- open-hearth,
- open-minded,
- open-plan,
- open-source,
- wide open spaces,
- wide-open,
- To lay one's self open to,
- keep one's eyes open,
- open-air market,
- open-air marketplace,
- open-angle glaucoma,
- open-class word,
- open-door policy,
- open-end credit,
- open-end fund,
- open-end wrench,
- open-face sandwich,
- open-faced watch,
- open-heart surgery,
- open-hearth furnace,
- open-hearth process,
- open-end investment company