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Go up   /goʊ əp/   Listen
Go up

verb
1.
Move upward.  Synonyms: arise, come up, lift, move up, rise, uprise.  "The smoke arose from the forest fire" , "The mist uprose from the meadows"  Antonym: fall.
2.
Increase in value or to a higher point.  Synonyms: climb, rise.  "The value of our house rose sharply last year"
3.
Move towards.  Synonyms: approach, come near, come on, draw close, draw near, near.  "They are drawing near" , "The enemy army came nearer and nearer"
4.
Be erected, built, or constructed.
5.
Go upward with gradual or continuous progress.  Synonyms: climb, climb up, mount.
6.
Burn completely; be consumed or destroyed by fire.  Synonyms: burn down, burn up.  "The mountain of paper went up in flames"
7.
Travel up,.  Synonym: ascend.  "Go up a ladder" , "The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope"  Antonym: descend.






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"Go up" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Let's go up and see him," I said. We ascended the dark staircase—the rest of the household were plunged in slumber—turned the handle of the bedroom door, and could just make out in the darkness a little figure in pyjamas, leaning precipitously ...
— Leaves from a Field Note-Book • J. H. Morgan

... I will tell her myself at the very first opportunity I have for speaking with her on such a subject. But, now that everything is settled between us, don't you think we'd better prepare the blast again before we go up? There is fuse enough left ...
— The Copper Princess - A Story of Lake Superior Mines • Kirk Munroe

... of a temper, has that clerk. Some day, Tom, when you love me very much, go up to the hotel and break his ...
— In the Bishop's Carriage • Miriam Michelson

... to see, just for the deuce of it, and not to get the oars at all, and I was deucedly well paid for it, too. In fact, Miss Hungerford," said the fisherman, darting a keen glance at me from his laughing eyes, "I did go up to scoff, but ...
— Cape Cod Folks • Sarah P. McLean Greene

... to get heat without combustion. The chilly parlor and the slippery hair-cloth seat take the life out of the warmest welcome. If one would make these places wholesome, happy, and cheerful, the first precept would be,—The dearest fuel, plenty of it, and let half the heat go up the chimney. If you can't afford this, don't try to live in a "genteel" fashion, but stick to the ways ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume V, Number 29, March, 1860 - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various


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