open up
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
cause to open or to become open
Mary opened the car door
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
become available
an opportunity opened up
Types & categories
- come up hypernym
Related & opposite
- opening derivation
Sense 3 verb
make available
This opens up new possibilities
Types & categories
- yield hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 4 verb
open up an area or prepare a way
She pioneered a graduate program for women students
Types & categories
- innovate hypernym
Related & opposite
- pioneer derivation
Sense 5 verb
start to operate or function or cause to start operating or functioning
open a business
Types & categories
- launch hyponym
Related & opposite
- close up antonym
- first step derivation
- opening derivation
Sense 6 verb
become open
The door opened
Types & categories
- change state hypernym
- unfasten hyponym
- fly open hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 7 verb
talk freely and without inhibition
Types & categories
- mouth hypernym
Related & opposite
- shut up antonym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | close |
| 1 | causes | Related & opposite | open |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | opening |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | opening |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | opener |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | unfastener |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | unbar |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | break open |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | click open |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | reopen |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | unlock |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | unbolt |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | unseal |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | uncork |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | pry |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | gap |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | lance |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | opening |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | come up |
| 3 | causes | Related & opposite | open up |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | opening |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | yield |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | pioneer |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | innovate |
| 5 | antonym | Related & opposite | close up |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | first step |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | opening |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | launch |
| 6 | antonym | Related & opposite | close |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | opening |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | change state |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | unfasten |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | fly open |
| 7 | antonym | Related & opposite | shut up |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | mouth |