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Answer for the clue "Come up ", 7 letters:
subvene

Word definitions for subvene in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Subvene \Sub*vene"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Subvened ; p. pr. & vb. n. Subvening .] [Pref. sub- + L. venire to come. See Subvention .] To come under, as a support or stay; to happen. A future state must needs subvene to prevent the whole edifice from falling ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (context intransitive English) To arrive or happen so as to help or support

Usage examples of subvene.

And as he entered the modest foyer, which was a pleasant but nevertheless gently jolting contrast to those of the chain-store caravanserais to which he had latterly become accustomed, the Saint had been musing on the stupendous changes that had subvened in the two-and-a-half decades since the missing major had last been heard from.

If Kapur could determine the goals of the Snowmen, then those objectives could be subvened to serve human purposes.