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Get up   /gɛt əp/   Listen
Get up

verb
1.
Rise to one's feet.  Synonyms: arise, rise, stand up, uprise.  Antonyms: lie down, sit down.
2.
Get up and out of bed.  Synonyms: arise, rise, turn out, uprise.  "They rose early" , "He uprose at night"  Antonyms: turn in, go to bed.
3.
Raise from a lower to a higher position.  Synonyms: bring up, elevate, lift, raise.  "Lift a load"  Antonym: lower.
4.
Cause to rise.
5.
Develop.  Synonym: work up.
6.
Put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive.  Synonyms: attire, deck out, deck up, dress up, fancy up, fig out, fig up, gussy up, overdress, prink, rig out, tog out, tog up, trick out, trick up.  "The young girls were all fancied up for the party"  Antonyms: dress down, underdress.
7.
Arrange by systematic planning and united effort.  Synonyms: devise, machinate, organise, organize, prepare.  "Organize a strike" , "Devise a plan to take over the director's office"
8.
Study intensively, as before an exam.  Synonyms: bone, bone up, cram, drum, grind away, mug up, swot, swot up.






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"Get up" Quotes from Famous Books



... the road until something comes in sight, Billy," he said, addressing the shivering horse. "Get up old boy, ...
— Young Auctioneers - The Polishing of a Rolling Stone • Edward Stratemeyer

... message to her father Olivia found him awake, but still in bed. Since his downfall had become generally known, she had noticed a reluctance on his part to get up. It was true he was not well; but his shrinking from activity was beyond what his degree of illness warranted. It was a day or two before she learned to view this seeming indolence as nothing but the desire to creep, for as many hours as possible out of the twenty-four, into the ...
— The Street Called Straight • Basil King

... exclaimed—"work! Think of dressing every day for dinner, of making half a dozen calls in an afternoon—with a policeman at every corner ready to jump into your auto and take you to the station, if you get up any greater speed than a donkey cart's gait. We do-nothings are the hardest workers ...
— The Four Million • O. Henry

... (as the clouds flit past behind it, or leave the sky), first white, and then dark blue. Well, there's just such an eyelet hole in one of the upper crags of the Diamond Valley; and, from a distance, you think that it is no bigger than the eye of a needle. But if you get up to it, they say you may drive a loaded camel through it, and that there are fine things on the other side, but I have never spoken with ...
— The Crown of Wild Olive • John Ruskin

... squall had been stronger than any others. Soon after it had passed over, John Hadden took a steady look to windward. "My boys," said he, "the gale is breaking. By the time we get up to the wreck, it will be calm enough to allow us to climb on board. It is to be hoped that her crew will stick by the vessel. No! what folly! they have launched another boat, and she will meet, I ...
— Ben Hadden - or, Do Right Whatever Comes Of It • W.H.G. Kingston


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