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get up

VERB
  1. arrange by systematic planning and united effort
    machinate a plot
    devise a plan to take over the director's office
    organize a strike
  2. put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive
    The young girls were all fancied up for the party
    She never dresses up, even when she goes to the opera
  3. raise from a lower to a higher position
    Lift a load
    Raise your hands
  4. rise to one's feet
    The audience got up and applauded
  5. study intensively, as before an exam
    I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam
  6. get up and out of bed
    I get up at 7 A.M. every day
    He uprose at night
    They rose early
  7. cause to rise
    The sergeant got us up at 2 A.M.
  8. develop
    we worked up an as of an appetite
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How To Use get up In A Sentence

  • One thing he does is get up to a little competitive devilry by unveiling the Google Pack, a parcel of software programs that you can download for free (if you have a Windows PC).
  • Get up and stretch when on long journeys such as on a coach or plane.
  • It was so embarrassing, I had to get up in front of hundreds of people and collect this award.
  • While you can get pretty close to walruses here, within 30 feet in some cases, you're not allowed to be on the beaches, so conversations are kept to a minimum and there's a rush to get up.
  • If he wasn't so dependent on her for his own survival, he would just get up and keep walking until he reached civilization.
  • In a moment," Eric said, "the wheelbarrow got bowsed over, when I managed, worse luck, to fall underneath; and then, finding I couldn't get up again, I hailed you, brother. Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes
  • But I accept that even when the charge is enticement, the enticed party, like the insulted shikseh, is free to get up and walk into another room. Kalooki Nights
  • He doesn't get up quickly like a rocket but gets up slowly, no matter what the contents are.
  • At the moment a large proportion of motherhood seems to be spent worrying about the fact that Tommy still can't manage to get up into a sitting position on his own.
  • An existing fish pass has fallen into disrepair and is not maintained, resulting in fish finding it hard to get upriver to spawn.
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