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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



... talent, to elevated patriotism, to sincere devotion to liberty and the country; or, if I see an uncommon endowment of Heaven, if I see extraordinary capacity and virtue, in any son of the South, and if, moved by local prejudice or gangrened by State jealousy, I get up here to abate the tithe of a hair from his just character and just fame, may my tongue cleave to the ...
— The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster • Daniel Webster
... in that moment: poor Maisie, lying awake to listen for the tap at her window, so that she might get up and peep round the corner of her blind to assure herself that her Hughie was alive and safe, would have to lie quaking and speculating through the dark hours of that night, for here was work that was going to keep me busied till day broke. I set to it there and then, leaving the man just as ...
— Dead Men's Money • J. S. Fletcher
... for the public peace, inasmuch as a fox, being a goblin, and devoid of human susceptibilities, will not take certain precautions. He may steal the next-door neighbour's purse by night and lay it at his own master's threshold, so that if the next-door neighbour happens to get up first and see it there is sure to be ...
— Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan - First Series • Lafcadio Hearn
... Nimawa Zin Ugly Nuta Uksheen (k guttur.) White Kie Bead Black Feen Khal Red Williamma Hummer How do you do? Nimbana mcuntania Kif-enta Well Kantee Ala-khere Not well Moon kanti Murrede What do you want Ala feta matume Ash-bright Sit down Siduma Jils Get up Ounilee Node Sour Akkumula Hamd Sweet Timiata Helluh True Aituliala Hack False Funiala Kadube Good Abatee Miliah Bad Minbatee Kubiah A witch Bua Sahar A lion Jatta Sebaa 375 An elephant Samma El fel A hyaena Salua Dubbah A wild boar Siwa ...
— An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa • Abd Salam Shabeeny
... "Get up, count," he said, with a little shaky laugh. "I appreciate the honour, but your fancy is playing you a trick. I tell you I never set foot in ...
— Cleek, the Master Detective • Thomas W. Hanshew


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