waltz (up)

verb

Definition of waltz (up)next
as in to turn up

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for waltz (up)
  1. turn up
  2. arrive
  3. show up
  4. reach
  5. draw on
  6. come up
  7. hit
  8. attain
Verb
  • But upstairs, the women turn up the heat, shifting the conversation back to the Med Gala.
    Shelby Stewart, Essence, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Food and Drug Administration officials turned up dozens of violations at a McDonald's supplier linked to a deadly outbreak of E. coli that led to more than a hundred infections and a sweeping recall of onions used in the fast food chain's products, including its Quarter Pounder burgers.
    Alexander Tin, CBS News, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of turn up
Verb
  • Reflection will arrive Friday, Jan. 24, on Disney+ and Hulu.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Tech Glade arrived in New York on an invitation from Salon 94 owner Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, who has collaborated with Lamy and Owens since the inception of their design business.
    Osman Can Yerebakan, Curbed, 13 Jan. 2025
Definition of arrive
Verb
  • The amount of volunteers who showed up from all parts of Los Angeles heartened Loyda Alvarado, 43.
    Yvonne Condes, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Looking this up, hilariously enough, while Sue Storm wore a wedding dress, Reed just shows up in his normal Fantastic Four outfit.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
Definition of show up
Verb
  • Things apparently reached a boiling point when the boyfriend’s 65-year-old mother recently got engaged.
    Toria Sheffield, People.com, 11 Jan. 2025
  • In 1930, the tut-tutting reached a feckless extreme.
    Brian Domitrovic, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
Definition of reach
Verb
  • By drawing on real-world scientific advancements and theories, the novel challenges readers to think critically about the role of technology in modern life and the ethical dilemmas that arise with innovation.
    William Mullane, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2025
  • And her professors at Juilliard — particularly renowned playwrights Marsha Norman and Christopher Durang — drilled into her the importance of drawing on the personal.
    Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of draw on
Verb
  • Notre Dame is going to have to come up with some answers in the passing game.
    NBC News, NBC News, 10 Jan. 2025
  • The designer recalled how Melania Trump used to come up to the Nicole Miller showroom as a model for castings.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of come up
Verb
  • The Powerball jackpot has not been hit since Dec. 7, when a New York player won the $256 million grand prize, lottery officials said.
    Don Sweeney, Miami Herald, 13 Jan. 2025
  • George Michael and Pop Smoke both hit No. 1 with albums titled Faith.
    Paul Grein, Billboard, 13 Jan. 2025
Definition of hit
Verb
  • An expansion of options and price range with Zero EVs are unquestionably expensive, and Honda says its new Zero platform will attain 300 miles (482 km) of range in all forms (SUV and Saloon) at a base level.
    Abigail Bassett, Ars Technica, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Individual countries may attain mastery of different pieces, but like-minded states will need to work together to assemble the full puzzle and keep it out of the reach of authoritarian states.
    Charina Chou, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
Definition of attain
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.

Thesaurus Entries Near waltz (up)

waltzing (up)

waltz (up)

wampum

See More Nearby Entries 

Cite this Entry

“Waltz (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/waltz%20%28up%29. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.

Copy Citation

Share

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!

Popular in Grammar & Usage

See All

'Affect' vs. 'Effect'

Using Bullet Points ( • )

Why is '-ed' sometimes pronounced at the end of a word?

What's the difference between 'fascism' and 'socialism'?

More Commonly Misspelled Words
See All

Popular in Wordplay

See All

Top 12 Sophisticated Compliments

Word of the Year 2024 | Polarization

Terroir, Oenophile, & Magnum: Ten Words About Wine

8 Words for Lesser-Known Musical Instruments

10 Words from Taylor Swift Songs (Merriam's Version)
See All

Games & Quizzes

See All
Play Quordle: Guess all four words in a limited number of tries. Each of your guesses must be a real 5-letter word.
Quordle Can you solve 4 words at once?
Play Blossom: Solve today's spelling word game by finding as many words as you can using just 7 letters. Longer words score more points.
Blossom Word Game Pick the best words!
Play Missing Letter: a crossword with a twist. Each of the 25 puzzle words start with a different letter of the alphabet. Which letter is missing?
Missing Letter A daily crossword with a twist
white rubber duck stands out in a row of yellow ducks
Odd Word Out: Synonyms Quiz Figure out which word isn't like the others.