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GET UP
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Get up and out of bed
Example:
He uprose at night
Synonyms:
arise; get up; rise; turn out; uprise
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Antonym:
go to bed (prepare for sleep)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Cause to rise
Example:
The sergeant got us up at 2 A.M.
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
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 3
Meaning:
Put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive
Example:
The young girls were all fancied up for the party
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
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
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"):
dress; plume; preen; primp (dress or groom with elaborate care)
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)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
getup (a set of clothing (with accessories))
Sense 4
Meaning:
Develop
Example:
we worked up an as of an appetite
Synonyms:
get up; work up
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
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 5
Meaning:
Study intensively, as before an exam
Example:
I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam
Synonyms:
bone; bone up; cram; drum; get up; grind away; mug up; swot; swot up
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
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
Sense 6
Meaning:
Arrange by systematic planning and united effort
Example:
devise a plan to take over the director's office
Synonyms:
devise; get up; machinate; organise; organize; prepare
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
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 7
Meaning:
Raise from a lower to a higher position
Example:
Lift a load
Synonyms:
bring up; elevate; get up; lift; raise
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
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"):
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)
hoist; lift; wind (raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help)
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 8
Meaning:
Rise to one's feet
Example:
The audience got up and applauded
Synonyms:
arise; get up; rise; stand up; uprise
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
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
Context examples:
If they can get up to it and fire in upon us through our own ports, things would begin to look dirty.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“If a person were to get up, take 10 steps, and sit down again, it appears that the effects of a sedentary lifestyle would be greatly reduced.
(Spending more time standing helps increase energy expenditure and combats the effects of a sedentary lifestyle, University of Granada)
I will fetch you a candle, sir; and, in Heaven's name, get up.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Well, then, Fanny, you shall not get up to-morrow before I go.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Get up and go over all the rooms in the house if you like it.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Many people feel lightheaded if they get up too quickly from sitting or lying down.
(Dizziness and Vertigo, NIH)
It was like Marmee to get up a little treat for them, but anything so fine as this was unheard of since the departed days of plenty.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Tomorrow I have to get up and work again.
(Norway's Warholm wins gold in 400 m hurdles at World Championships in Doha, Wikinews)
I had just time to get up to town by the night train to see him this morning, and to bring you both back with me to Birmingham.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Old Mother Nature’s going to get up on her hind legs and howl for all that’s in her, and it’ll keep us jumping, Hump, to pull through with half our boats.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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