GET UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does get up mean? 

• GET UP (verb)
  The verb GET UP has 8 senses:

1. rise to one's feet
2. get up and out of bed
3. raise from a lower to a higher position
4. cause to rise
5. develop
6. put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive
7. arrange by systematic planning and united effort
8. study intensively, as before an exam

  Familiarity information: GET UP used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GET UP (verb)

Sense 1

get up [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Rise to one's feet

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

get up; stand up; arise; rise; uprise

Context example:

The audience got up and applauded

Hypernyms (to "get up" is one way to...):

change posture (undergo a change in bodily posture)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "get up"):

take the floor (stand up to dance)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue get up

Sense 2

get up [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Get up and out of bed

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

get up; arise; uprise; rise; turn out

Context examples:

I get up at 7 A.M. every day / They rose early / He uprose at night

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Antonym:

go to bed (prepare for sleep)

Sense 3

get up [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Raise from a lower to a higher position

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

lift; elevate; raise; get up; bring up

Context examples:

Raise your hands / Lift a load

Hypernyms (to "get up" is one way to...):

displace; move (cause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Cause:

arise; come up; go up; lift; move up; rise; uprise (move upward)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "get up"):

skid (elevate onto skids)

pinnacle (raise on or as if on a pinnacle)

chin; chin up (raise oneself while hanging from one's hands until one's chin is level with the support bar)

leaven; prove; raise (cause to puff up with a leaven)

heighten (increase the height of)

boost; hike; hike up (increase)

gather up; lift up; pick up (take and lift upward)

erect; rear (cause to rise up)

underlay (raise or support (the level of printing) by inserting a piece of paper or cardboard under the type)

levitate (cause to rise in the air and float, as if in defiance of gravity)

pump (raise (gases or fluids) with a pump)

get up (cause to rise)

jack; jack up (lift with a special device)

shoulder (lift onto one's shoulders)

kick up (cause to rise by kicking)

hoist; lift; wind (raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help)

trice; trice up (raise with a line)

hoist; run up (raise)

hoist (move from one place to another by lifting)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP

Sentence example:

The men get up the chairs

Sense 4

get up [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Cause to rise

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Context example:

The sergeant got us up at 2 A.M.

Hypernyms (to "get up" is one way to...):

bring up; elevate; get up; lift; raise (raise from a lower to a higher position)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sense 5

get up [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Develop

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

work up; get up

Context example:

we worked up an as of an appetite

Hypernyms (to "get up" is one way to...):

acquire; develop; get; grow; produce (come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 6

get up [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

rig out; tog out; tog up; trick out; trick up; gussy up; fig up; deck out; fig out; fancy up; dress up; deck up; attire; overdress; prink; get up

Context examples:

She never dresses up, even when she goes to the opera / The young girls were all fancied up for the party

Hypernyms (to "get up" is one way to...):

dress; get dressed (put on clothes)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "get up"):

dress; plume; preen; primp (dress or groom with elaborate care)

prank (dress up showily)

tart up (dress up in a cheap and provocative way)

enrobe (adorn with a robe)

bedizen; dizen (dress up garishly and tastelessly)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 7

get up [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Arrange by systematic planning and united effort

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

machinate; devise; prepare; organise; organize; get up

Context examples:

machinate a plot / organize a strike / devise a plan to take over the director's office

Hypernyms (to "get up" is one way to...):

initiate; pioneer (take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "get up"):

spatchcock (prepare for eating if or as if a spatchcock)

sandwich (make into a sandwich)

set up (begin, or enable someone else to begin, a venture by providing the means, logistics, etc.)

lay (prepare or position for action or operation)

mount; put on (prepare and supply with the necessary equipment for execution or performance)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 8

get up [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Study intensively, as before an exam

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

swot up; swot; mug up; grind away; bone up; bone; drum; cram; get up

Context example:

I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam

Hypernyms (to "get up" is one way to...):

hit the books; study (learn by reading books)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something PP