muster up en · VERB
Meanings
-
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
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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)