get up

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get up Definition

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

get up Synonyms

• arise
• attire
• bone
• bone up
• bring up
• cram
• deck out
• deck up
• devise
• dress up
• drum
• elevate
• fancy up
• fig out
• fig up
• get up
• grind away
• gussy up
• lift
• machinate
• mug up
• organise
• organize
• overdress
• prepare
• prink
• raise
• rig out
• rise
• stand up
• swot
• swot up
• tog out
• tog up
• trick out
• trick up
• turn out
• uprise
• work up