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Land Up (Verb)

Finally be or do something; "He ended up marrying his high school sweetheart"; "he wound up being unemployed and living at home again".

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..

She eventually worked hard and landed up as a top executive at the company.
After years of struggle, he wound up wealthy, but not happy.
Her hard work ultimately paid off, and she ended up with a full scholarship.
His lack of preparation landed him up in debt and without a job.
He never believed he would land up owning a successful business at such a young age.

Block with earth, as after a landslide.

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.

Workers rushed to the scene to clear the street and rebuild the sidewalk after the rainstorm caused dirt and debris to land up against the buildings.
As the waters receded, they noticed that silt and pebbles had land up against the grove of willows along the riverbank.
At the construction site, heavy machinery had to be brought in to remove the earth that land up in a massive pile after the excavator broke down.
Some areas had three feet of sediment that land up on top of buildings after the freak tornado touched down near the river.
A huge chunk of hillside land up right in the middle of the main road during the unseasonable thaw in the mountain town.