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Go up

verb

Move upward. Synonyms: arise, come up, lift, move up, rise, uprise. "The smoke arose from the forest fire" , "The mist uprose from the meadows"

Increase in value or to a higher point. Synonyms: climb, rise. "The value of our house rose sharply last year"

Move towards. Synonyms: approach, come near, come on, draw close, draw near, near. "They are drawing near" , "The enemy army came nearer and nearer"

Be erected, built, or constructed.

Go upward with gradual or continuous progress. Synonyms: climb, climb up, mount.

Burn completely; be consumed or destroyed by fire. Synonyms: burn down, burn up. "The mountain of paper went up in flames"

Travel up,. Synonym: ascend. "Go up a ladder" , "The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope"

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"Go up" Quotes from Famous Books

... 16, 18, or 20 Foot high. These Posts are bigger or less, according to the intended magnificence of the Superstructure. They have but one Floor, but many Partitions or Rooms, and a Ladder or Stairs to go up out of the Streets. The Roof is large, and covered with Palmeto or Palm-leaves. So there is a clear passage like a Piazza (but a filthy one) under the House. Some of the poorer People that keep Ducks or Hens, have a fence made round the Posts of their ...

— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898--Volume 39 of 55 • Various

... drew those cords tight! You are to go up stairs, out the front door, and turn to the right; there's a horse in the thicket beyond the summer house. Damnation, loosen that ankle rope, ...

— My Lady of Doubt • Randall Parrish

... would come in already, Sohn-stein," said Gottlieb, gruffly. "Open for him, but lock the door again. I must go up-stairs." ...

— A Romance Of Tompkins Square - 1891 • Thomas A. Janvier

... line ready, a small but strong and pliant rope. He nodded to his party, glanced up for the most favorable starting point, then began to go up. The Meadow Brook Girls followed in single file. Miss Elting bringing up the rear. Now the guide passed the rope to them as the ascent became more precipitous. Up and up wound the trail. The climbers kept a firm grip on the life line, for a misstep ...

— The Meadow-Brook Girls in the Hills - The Missing Pilot of the White Mountains • Janet Aldridge

... him: and so it was, that when he came to the place, he saw that it was only a bush, which his fears had turned into the figure of a beast of prey; and at the same moment he found where it was written in his book, "No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed ...

— The Rocky Island - and Other Similitudes • Samuel Wilberforce

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