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get up in WordNet English dictionary

verb
  1. get up and out of bed
    "I get up at 7 A.M. every day"; "They rose early"; "He uprose at night"
    get up  turn out  arise  uprise  rise 
  2. rise to one's feet
    "The audience got up and applauded"
    arise  rise  uprise  get up  stand up 
  3. study intensively, as before an exam
    "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam"
    cram  grind away  drum  bone up  swot  get up  mug up  swot up  bone 
  4. raise from a lower to a higher position
    "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load"
    raise  lift  elevate  get up  bring up 
  5. put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive
    "She never dresses up, even when she goes to the opera"; "The young girls were all fancied up for the party"
    overdress  dress up  fig out  fig up  deck up  gussy up  fancy up  trick up  deck out  trick out  prink  attire  get up  rig out  tog up  tog out 
  6. arrange by systematic planning and united effort
    "machinate a plot"; "organize a strike"; "devise a plan to take over the director's office"
    organize  organise  prepare  devise  get up  machinate 
  7. cause to rise
    "The sergeant got us up at 2 A.M."
    get up 
  8. develop
    "we worked up an as of an appetite"
    work up  get up 
WordNet Lexical Database v3.0, © 2006 Princeton University


get up in English Wiktionary

 
  1. (verb) (literally) To move in an upwards direction; to ascend or climb.
  2. (verb) To rise from one's bed.
  3. (verb) To move from a sitting or lying position to a standing position; to stand up.
  4. (verb) To materialise; to grow stronger.
  5. (verb) To bring together, amass.
  6. (verb) To gather or grow larger by accretion.
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