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Land up

verb

Block with earth, as after a landslide. Synonym: earth up.

Finally be or do something. Synonyms: end up, fetch up, finish, finish up, wind up. "He wound up being unemployed and living at home again"

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"Land up" Quotes from Famous Books

... spot of land up the river breaks away and floats down stream, with a laden apple tree growing upon it. Pee-wee takes possession of this island and the resulting adventures are ...

— Roy Blakeley in the Haunted Camp • Percy Keese Fitzhugh

... matter of fact, Mike's father owned vast tracts of land up country, where countless sheep lived and had their being. He had long retired from active superintendence of his estate. Like Mr. Spenlow, he had a partner, a stout fellow with the work-taint highly developed, who asked nothing better than to be left in charge. So Mr. ...

— Mike • P. G. Wodehouse

Words linked to "Land up" : close up, earth up, impede, obturate, fetch up, move, finish, obstruct, jam, act, block, wind up, occlude