Join and Take up

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Join verb - To be adjacent to.

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Take up and join are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Take up" instead a verb "Join".

Nearby Words: joined, joining

Take up verb - To move from a lower to a higher place or position.

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Join and take up are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Join" instead a verb "Take up".

In The Dresden Files, Nicodemus gives Harry an offer: take up one of the 30 silver coins and join the Order of the Blackened Denarius, or Nicodemus will slit his throat once he's done eating breakfast.

Source: Join or Die
Lucy and Ethel think their husbands are going to join the army, and decide to take up knitting as a hobby.

Source: Knitting Pregnancy Announcement
Knitting Pregnancy Announcement: Subverted when Lucy and Ethel think their husbands are going to join the army and take up knitting.

Source: Series / I Love Lucy

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