lead up

Thesaurus

Verb

1.

lead up - set in motion, start an event or prepare the way for; "Hitler's attack on Poland led up to World War II" initiate initiate, originate, start - bring into being; "He initiated a new program"; "Start a foundation"

Translations

? lead up

vt sep → hinaufführen (→ to auf +acc); (= lead across) → führen (to zu); to lead somebody up the garden path (fig) → jdm etwas vormachen, jdn an der Nase herumführen

vi

(= come before) the events/years that led up to the war → die Ereignisse/Jahre, die dem Krieg voran- or vorausgingen

(= introduce) he was obviously leading up to an important announcement → er schickte sich offensichtlich an, etwas Wichtiges anzukündigen; his speech was obviously leading up to an important announcement → seine Rede war offensichtlich die Einleitung zu einer wichtigen Ankündigung; what are you leading up to? → worauf willst du hinaus?; what’s all this leading up to? → was soll das Ganze?