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go up

VERB
  1. burn completely; be consumed or destroyed by fire
    The hut burned down
    The mountain of paper went up in flames
  2. travel up
    We ascended the mountain
    The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope
    go up a ladder
  3. move towards
    The enemy army came nearer and nearer
    They are drawing near
    We were approaching our destination
  4. go upward with gradual or continuous progress
    Did you ever climb up the hill behind your house?
  5. increase in value or to a higher point
    prices climbed steeply
    the value of our house rose sharply last year
  6. move upward
    The mist uprose from the meadows
    The fog lifted
    The smoke arose from the forest fire
  7. be erected, built, or constructed
    New buildings are going up everywhere
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How To Use go up In A Sentence

  • Book value can increase as a result of mergers, and it can go up if a company has just sold a lot of new equity.
  • The houfes of the town of Puna are built on pofts ten or twelve feet high, into which they go up by ladders, and are thatched with palmeto-leaves: the like contriv - ance I have feen among the Malayans in the Eaft Indies. A new collection of voyages, discoveries and travels : containing whatever is worthy of notice, in Europe, Asia, Africa and America
  • However, the reps go up dramatically for endurance-oriented muscles such as calves and abs.
  • If the mortgage rate has to go up to bring the price of houses down, it will create more homelessness because of repossessions.
  • The world is a ladder for some to go up and some down. 
  • If production costs go up, there will be a pro rata increase in prices/prices will increase pro rata.
  • In manual mode, drivers can go up or down gears without depressing the clutch.
  • You could go up to a stranger and know they were on the same wavelength.
  • Whenever we go up there, we often stop off just to buy a half-dozen to take back to Canberra.
  • 'in times she be; but there's something about her I don't quite fancy; the plain fact is, she's rather _quair_, and I shall go up to the village. International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850
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