"crop up" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-crop up.ogg Forms: crops up [present, singular, third-person], cropping up [participle, present], cropped up [participle, past], cropped up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} crop up (third-person singular simple present crops up, present participle cropping up, simple past and past participle cropped up)
  1. (intransitive, idiomatic) To occur, especially suddenly or unexpectedly. Tags: idiomatic, intransitive Translations (to occur): passar (Catalan), esdevenir (Catalan), succeir (Catalan), ocórrer (Catalan), gitib (Cebuano), 突然发生 (Chinese Mandarin), opduiken (Dutch), verschijnen (Dutch), ilmaantua (Finnish), auftauchen (German), ανακύπτω (anakýpto) (Greek), felbukkan (Hungarian), felmerül (Hungarian), saltare fuori (Italian), haver (Portuguese), неожи́данно обнаруживаться (neožídanno obnaruživatʹsja) (Russian), возника́ть (voznikátʹ) (Russian), presentar [pronominal] (Spanish), dyka upp (Swedish)

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          "lang": "Hungarian",
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      "sense": "to occur",
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      "sense": "to occur",
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      "sense": "to occur",
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      "sense": "to occur",
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      "sense": "to occur",
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      "sense": "to occur",
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      "code": "hu",
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      "sense": "to occur",
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      "sense": "to occur",
      "word": "felmerül"
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "to occur",
      "word": "saltare fuori"
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to occur",
      "word": "haver"
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      "sense": "to occur",
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