Look up

to become better:

I hope things will start to look up in the new year.

Our financial situation is looking up at last.

looked up; looking up; looks up

intransitive verb

1

: to cheer up

look up—things are not all bad

2

: to improve in prospects or conditions

business is looking up

transitive verb

1

: to search for in or as if in a reference work

look up an address

2

: to seek out especially for a brief visit

look me up when you're here

1. search for and find a piece of information in a book or database.

   "the translation process amounted to little more than looking up words in bilingual dictionaries"
2. 2.

   (of a situation) improve.

   "things seemed to be looking up at last."

look someone up

to visit someone you have not seen for a long time when you are visiting the place where they live:

Look me up next time you're in Edmonton.

look something up

to try to find a piece of information by looking in a book or on a computer:

If you don't know what the word means, look it up in a dictionary.

to check a fact or get information about something:

If you're not sure what the word means, look it up in a dictionary.

I looked up solar power on the Internet to find out more about it.