look sth up
— phrasal verb with look /lʊk/ verbDefinition
B1 to try to find a piece of information by looking in a book or on a computer: If you don't know what the word means, look it up in a dictionary.Reading
(Definition of look sth up from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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