MOUNT UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mount up mean? 

• MOUNT UP (verb)
  The verb MOUNT UP has 1 sense:

1. get up on the back of

  Familiarity information: MOUNT UP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOUNT UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Get up on the back of

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

bestride; climb on; get on; hop on; jump on; mount; mount up

Context example:

mount a horse

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

move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)

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

remount (mount again)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

“It's not a great deal towards the furnishing,” said Traddles, “but it's something. The table-cloths, and pillow-cases, and articles of that kind, are what discourage me most, Copperfield. So does the ironmongery—candle-boxes, and gridirons, and that sort of necessaries—because those things tell, and mount up. However, “wait and hope!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)