Meaning of rake up | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To bring up or uncover (something), as embarrassing information, past misdeeds, etc.
   ambitransitive, figuratively
2. To cover up, to hide (like covering live embers by raking ashes over them).
   figuratively, obsolete, transitive
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rake.

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Examples

“As for those that will (by faults which charity hath raked up, or common honesty concealed) make⟳ themselves a name⟳ with the multitude, or, to draw⟳ their rude and beastly claps, care not whose living faces they intrench with their petulant styles, may they do it without a rival, for me! I choose⟳ rather to live⟳ graved in obscurity, than share⟳ with them in so preposterous a fame. Nor can I blame⟳ the wishes of those severe and wise patriots, who providing the hurts these licentious spirits may do in a state, desire rather to see⟳ fools and devils, and those antique relics of barbarism retrieved, with all other ridiculous and exploded follies, than behold the wounds of private men, of princes and nations:”

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