MUSTER UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does muster up mean? 

• MUSTER UP (verb)
  The verb MUSTER UP has 1 sense:

1. gather or bring together

  Familiarity information: MUSTER UP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MUSTER UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Gather or bring together

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

come up; muster; muster up; rally; summon

Context example:

Summon all your courage

Hypernyms (to "muster up" is one way to...):

collect; garner; gather; pull together (assemble or get together)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

Although I left the office at half past three, and was prowling about the place of appointment within a few minutes afterwards, the appointed time was exceeded by a full quarter of an hour, according to the clock of St. Andrew's, Holborn, before I could muster up sufficient desperation to pull the private bell-handle let into the left-hand door-post of Mr. Waterbrook's house.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

My own face had now assumed a deep tropical burn. I couldn't muster up a single commonplace out of the thousand in my head.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)