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

Meaning:

Rise to one's feet

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

arise; get up; rise; stand up; 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

Meaning:

Get up and out of bed

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

arise; get up; rise; turn out; uprise

Context example:

He uprose at night

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Antonym:

go to bed (prepare for sleep)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Raise from a lower to a higher position

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

bring up; elevate; get up; lift; raise

Context example:

Lift a load

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

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, 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"):

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

erect; rear (cause to rise up)

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

boost; hike; hike up (increase)

heighten (increase the height of)

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

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

pinnacle (raise on or as if on a pinnacle)

skid (elevate onto skids)

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)

hoist (move from one place to another by lifting)

hoist; run up (raise)

trice; trice up (raise with a line)

kick up (cause to rise by kicking)

shoulder (lift onto one's shoulders)

jack; jack up (lift with a special device)

get up (cause to rise)

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

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

Meaning:

Develop

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

get up; work 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

Meaning:

Put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

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

Context example:

The young girls were all fancied up for the party

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

dress; get dressed (put on clothes)

Verb group:

dress; dress up (dress in a certain manner)

costume; dress up (dress in a costume)

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

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)

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

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

getup (a set of clothing (with accessories))

Sense 7

Meaning:

Arrange by systematic planning and united effort

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

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

Context example:

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"):

embattle (prepare for battle or conflict)

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

Meaning:

Study intensively, as before an exam

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

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

Verb group:

cram (prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam)

Sentence frames:

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

 Context examples 

I should get up, sir, to acknowledge such an honour as this visit, said he, only my limbs are rather out of sorts, and I am wheeled about.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Whereupon the other world would vanish and the real world come into his eyes, and he would get up and yawn and stretch as though he had been asleep.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

White Fang made several ineffectual efforts to get up.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

But we do not mind. We sleep like dead people, and in the morning get up like dead people out of their graves and go on along the trail.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I had to get up early for the washing.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The Slovak boats get up all right, by aid of a rope and steering with knowledge.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

She began at length to recover, to fidget about in her chair, get up, sit down again, wonder, and bless herself.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

“Lift the latch,” called out the grandmother, “I am too weak, and cannot get up.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

We’re going to have a peaceful evening, as Jem Belcher and I will show you if you get up to any of your Whitechapel games.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You found it hard to get up; you will find it harder to get down.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)