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get up

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. arise, rise, uprise, get up, stand upverb

    rise to one's feet

    "The audience got up and applauded"

  2. get up, turn out, arise, uprise, riseverb

    get up and out of bed

    "I get up at 7 A.M. every day"; "They rose early"; "He uprose at night"

  3. raise, lift, elevate, get up, bring upverb

    raise from a lower to a higher position

    "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load"

  4. get upverb

    cause to rise

    "The sergeant got us up at 2 A.M."

  5. work up, get upverb

    develop

    "we worked up an as of an appetite"

  6. overdress, dress up, fig out, fig up, deck up, gussy up, fancy up, trick up, deck out, trick out, prink, attire, get up, rig out, tog up, tog outverb

    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"

  7. organize, organise, prepare, devise, get up, machinateverb

    arrange by systematic planning and united effort

    "machinate a plot"; "organize a strike"; "devise a plan to take over the director's office"

  8. cram, grind away, drum, bone up, swot, get up, mug up, swot up, boneverb

    study intensively, as before an exam

    "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam"

Wiktionary

  1. get upverb

    (literally) To move in an upwards direction; to ascend or climb.

  2. get upverb

    To rise from one's bed (often implying to wake up)

  3. get upverb

    To move from a sitting or lying position to a standing position; to stand up.

  4. get upverb

    To materialise; to grow stronger.

  5. get upverb

    To bring together, amass.

  6. get upverb

    To gather or grow larger by accretion.

  7. get upverb

    To go towards the attacking goal.

  8. get upverb

    To criticise.

  9. get upverb

    To annoy.

Wikipedia

  1. Get Up

    Get Up is a single by rapper 50 Cent, produced by Scott Storch. It was initially released as the official first single from his fourth studio album Before I Self Destruct, but it was later replaced by "Baby by Me", thus becoming an outtake from that album, and was only released in digital download on October 7, 2008 via Shady Records, Aftermath and Interscope.

ChatGPT

  1. get up

    To get up refers to the action of moving from a sitting, lying or kneeling position to a standing position. It can also mean waking from sleep or rising from bed in the morning. Additionally, it can also refer to actively starting a task or activity.

Suggested Resources

  1. get up

    Read the full text of the Get Up poem by Ehsan Sehgal on the Poetry.com website.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of get up in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of get up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of get up in a Sentence

  1. Bei Bei:

    This highlights that biological factors such as natural delay in body clock, and having to get up early for school, have much stronger effects on adolescents' sleep than technology itself.

  2. Tim Hodge:

    It's pretty intimidating, and with a newborn baby, you watch this water get up to where it's inches from those electrical outlets and it's probably time to get ready to go.

  3. Josue Barron:

    I had told myself I want to see those crosses, and it took me five years to get up there, i knew I had to get up there some way somehow.

  4. Joe Biden:

    It sounds stupid -- when I get up in the morning, I think about you know, I hope he's proud of me. I hope he's proud.

  5. Jennifer Saunders:

    What don’t we get up to in the film, they do everything you’d expect them to do and more. They manage to kill a supermodel, I don’t know how much worse it gets than that.


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