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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

crop up en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To occur, especially suddenly or unexpectedly.
    • The potential for conflicts cropped up immediately. In April 2012, after her maternity leave and while she was waiting to get her S.G.E. designation, Teneo asked her to intercede on behalf of its client Judith Rodin, the president of the Rockefeller Foundation, in obtaining a seat on the President’s Global Development Council. 2016 January 31, “Is Huma Abedin Hillary Clinton’s Secret Weapon or Her Next Big Problem?”, in Vanity Fair, retrieved 21 Jan 2016:
    • We'll finish tonight if no problems crop up.
    • Cares crop up in villas. 1880, [Benjamin Disraeli], Endymion […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
crops up Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
cropping up Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
cropped up Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
cropped up Tense=Past lexicographic

Translations (26)

el ανακύπτω (to occur) · pl przewinąć się (to occur) · nl opduiken (to occur) · ca ocórrer (to occur) · ceb gitib (to occur) · ca passar (to occur) · gl presentarse (to occur) · gl ocorrer (to occur) · pl pojawić się (to occur) · ru возника́ть (to occur) · sv dyka upp (to occur) · hu felbukkan (to occur) · fi ilmaantua (to occur) · cmn 突然发生 (to occur) · ca succeir (to occur) · ca esdevenir (to occur) · es presentar (to occur) · hu felmerül (to occur) · gl producirse (to occur) · de auftauchen (to occur) · pl przewijać się (to occur) · pl pojawiać się (to occur) · nl verschijnen (to occur) · pt haver (to occur) · it saltare fuori (to occur) · ru неожи́данно обнаруживаться (to occur)