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Take up with

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Verb
  1. 1
    To form a close relationship with (someone).

    "I hear that John has taken up with Jane."

  2. 2
    To become interested in (something).

    "For although the Queen had ordered a little Equipage of all things neceſſary while I was in her Service, yet my Ideas were wholly taken up with what I ſaw on every ſide of me, and winked at my own Littleneſs as People do at their own Faults."

  3. 3
    To begin living together with; to lodge with.
  4. 4
    To be contented to receive; to receive without opposition; to put up with archaic
  5. 5
    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, up, take up, with.

    "He took them up with him on his next trip to the mountains."

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