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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

muster up en · VERB

Meanings

  1. Look within oneself to summon a particular positive quality, such as strength, energy or courage.
    • Nobody save myself so much as turned to look after him; nor, it grieves me to confess, could even I contrive to muster up any tolerable interest, even by all that the warlike spirit, formerly manifested within that now decrepit shape, had wrought upon our globe. 1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “P.'s Correspondence”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:
    • I mustered up all my remaining willpower.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
musters up Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
mustering up Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
mustered up Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
mustered up Tense=Past lexicographic

Translations (8)

pl zebrać się (to look within oneself to summon a particular positive quality) · es reunir (to look within oneself to summon a particular positive quality) · cs sebrat (to look within oneself to summon a particular positive quality) · pl zbierać się (to look within oneself to summon a particular positive quality) · es acopiar (to look within oneself to summon a particular positive quality) · de aufbringen (to look within oneself to summon a particular positive quality) · es hacer acopio de (to look within oneself to summon a particular positive quality) · es armarse de (to look within oneself to summon a particular positive quality)