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look up
     1. v. (intransitive, idiomatic) To have better prospects, to improve.
           Things started looking up after Jim moved back in with his parents.
     2. v. (transitive, idiomatic) To obtain information about something from a text source.
           I didn't know what a mitochondrion was until I looked it up in a dictionary.
     3. v. To track down or search for (someone that one used to know).
           We stayed up late to look up at the stars.
Analysis
look
     1. v. (intransitive, often, with "at") To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.
           Look at my new car!  Don’t look in the closet.
     2. v. To appear, to seem.
           It looks as if it’s going to rain soon.
     3. v. (copulative) To give an appearance of being.
up
     1. adv. Away from the surface of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity.
           I looked up and saw the airplane overhead.
     2. adv. (intensifier) Used as an aspect marker to indicate a completed action or state Thoroughly, completely.
           I will mix up the puzzle pieces.
           Tear up the contract.

Example Sentences

We look up to them from the start. 
Anyway, it's good to have a dog to look up to you and a cat to look down on you. 



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