Usually means: Become aware, informed, and prudent.
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  1. wise up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. wise up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wise up: Collins English Dictionary
  4. wise up: Vocabulary.com
  5. wise-up: Wordnik
  6. wise up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. wise up: Wiktionary
  8. wise up: Dictionary.com
  9. Wise Up (Amy Grant song), Wise Up (TV programme), Wise Up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. wise up: Rhymezone
  11. wise up: FreeDictionary.org
  12. wise up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. wise up: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. wise up: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. wise up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. wise-up: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. wise up: Urban Dictionary

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▸ verb:  (informal, intransitive) To become informed; to inform oneself of something, or come to a realization.

Similar:
get wise, awaken, wisen, wake up, clue up, awake, be on to, apprise, learn, know, more...

Phrases:
Wise Up Ghost, more...

Adjectives:
elate, upright, upstage, uplevel, step-up, upstart, well up, up, elevate, upraised, upcast

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Similar:
get wise, awaken, wisen, wake up, clue up, awake, be on to, apprise, learn, know, more...

Phrases:
Wise Up Ghost, more...

Adjectives:
elate, upright, upstage, uplevel, step-up, upstart, well up, up, elevate, upraised, upcast



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