to offer up
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6.3
- phrasal verb
- /ˈɔfər ʌp/
:
ofrecer
- Why don't you offer up your pain to God?
- offer up prayers
But Bruning himself offers up a different explanation.
- But Bruning himself offers up a different explanation.
- We also know they won't change if they aren't offering up a true apology.
- Tell us about your decision to offer up your instruments as part of your crowdfunding perks.
- And they had tried the other way, which is loving me and being supportive and, and kind of offering up a soft landing pad.
- That was poor of me offering up some sort of an understanding or an excuse of how you got there and why you did that.
- I would like to offer up a very heartfelt question that was sent just before the webinar began and I'll read it.
- And so these strains were just what were offered up as the intervention.
- What are you by way of service offering up to them?
- But if that that wasn't the focus And, and I think offering up deep, meaningful work to other people was kind of like, yeah, maybe.
- I would say to me if I offered up something like that, for sure this woman has the audacity to ask for if I even thought of it.
Examples
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And I offered up a little prayer.
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You should offer up prayers and thanks.
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With your leave, Dr. Rivers, I shall offer up one more prayer.
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We offer up our humble thanks and ask that you bless this food to our use and us to thy service.
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Jesus Maria offered up her body to God on the day of her first communion.
Fiction book (1990) -
I kneeled down and began to offer up the desires of my heart.
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The monks accordingly offer up the following prayer, derived from the text of Psalms 68:16-17: (n63)
Academic text (2005) -
During the ceremony, everyone was encouraged to offer up their prayers for the loved ones lost.
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As part of their religious tradition, they offer up sacrifices to express their gratitude.
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In quiet reflection, she began to offer up the wishes and hopes she held in her heart.
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Morphology
The core meaning 'to present or give' is directly carried by 'offer' and the particle 'up' adds a directional/completive nuance rather than creating an unrelated idiomatic sense. The phrase is a regular verb + particle construction and its meaning (presenting/giving, often in ritual context) is predictable from the constituents and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows 'offer' and 'up' would likely understand it.
Etymology
The verb offer up may come from the simple image of people lifting a gift or a prayer toward the sky or an altar, with offer meaning 'to give' and up showing the upward motion. That's why offer up now means 'to present' something as an act of worship or deep respect.