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Follow up

verb

Pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue. Synonyms: carry out, follow out, follow through, go through, implement, put through. "He implemented a new economic plan" , "She followed up his recommendations with a written proposal"

Increase the effectiveness or success of by further action.

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... see whether the coast were clear; and then, perceiving its enemy on the watch, provokingly draw it in again, leaving pussy angry at her repeated disappointments and almost inclined to bite her paws with vexation at her inability to follow up her prey into its stronghold; for, the heavy artillery of the fortress so protected the surrounding country adjacent to Metz, that the Germans had to place the batteries of their works out of its range, ...

— Fritz and Eric - The Brother Crusoes • John Conroy Hutcheson

... from birth is Belief forbidden; from these till death is Relief afar. They are concerned with matters hidden—under the earth-line their altars are. The secret fountains to follow up, waters withdrawn to restore to the mouth, And gather the floods as in a cup, and pour them again at a ...

— The Years Between • Rudyard Kipling

... of Cannae, equal in celebrity to the defeat at the Allia: but as it was less important in respect to those things which happened after it, because the enemy did not follow up the blow, so was it more important and more horrible with respect to the slaughter of the army; for with respect to the flight at the Allia, as it betrayed the city, so it preserved the army. At Cannae, scarcely seventy accompanied ...

— The History of Rome; Books Nine to Twenty-Six • Titus Livius

... "When I want to follow up Cleopatra's fashion, and commit suicide, I am goin' to hire a rattlesnake, and take my poison as ...

— Sweet Cicely - Or Josiah Allen as a Politician • Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley)

... back a few years in order to follow up another line of discovery which had an important bearing upon the theory of the vertebrate skull—the working out of the distinction between membrane ...

— Form and Function - A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology • E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

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