rake up

VERB
  1. bring to light
    He raked up the misdeeds of his predecessor
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How To Use rake up In A Sentence

  • Would they not rake up the past and find clues that had led to my fate?
  • I can't rake up the leaves from the grass yet - it's far too muddy and wet for that.
  • In Stuttgart in 1983 the so-called Stuttgart Mandate was issued calling for a brake upon agricultural expenditure.
  • Rake up the trash in the yard and burn it, we will have some guests tonight.
  • Confined to the fine arts, this clinging to the safe and known was just a brake upon innovation and exuberance.
  • Above us, among the stones of the slope, hang bunches of Christmas fern; around the foot of the trees we uncover trailing clusters of gray-green partridge vine, glowing with crimson berries; we rake up the prince's-pine, pipsissewa, creeping-Jennie, and wintergreen red with ripe berries -- a whole bouquet of evergreens, exquisite, fairy-like forms that later shall gladden our Christmas table. The Hills of Hingham
  • In Stuttgart in 1983 the so-called Stuttgart Mandate was issued calling for a brake upon agricultural expenditure.
  • She helped her father to rake up the dried grass into piles.
  • Dats what happens when teh cops come to brake up a catnip pardee. *nods* Catnip Party Explosion - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • (though I never heard they exposed him to more peril than that of a broken head, or a night's lodging in the main guard, when wine and cavalierism predominated in his upper storey), had found it a convenient thing to rake up all matter of accusation against the deceased Stephen. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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