Open up
Open up verb - Cause to open or to become open.
Both terms in one sentence
- Having the sun nearly go dark forever, releasing godawful monsters to stalk the increasingly-long nights, while bottomless pits open up and start eating the landscape, would sure convince me.
Source: The Unmasqued World - In Gridlock, the Face of Boe sacrifices himself to provide enough energy to open up the motorway in which the last surviving citizens of New New York are trapped, releasing them from both the doomed fate of driving on the motorway forever and from being preyed on by the Macra below.
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Getting Crap Past the Radar: Dean's method of releasing the squirrel in his pants: he stands up, makes a public declaration to the other customers that it's not his fault, and then proceeds to open up his fly to release the crazed squirrel (which then utterly causes a huge mess at the diner).
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Releasing and Open up. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/open_up/releasing
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