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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. Rhiannan Iffland:

    It doesn't matter how many times you perform a dive. You still get up there 22 metres (72 feet) high and you still have all these negative emotions, to overcome that fear is something that I cannot express.

  2. Charlie Linville:

    And if I can affect one person, maybe directly — me knowing that person — or indirectly, like I don’t know them but they hear my story; and they get up, they leave their house and start doing (something) in their life ...

  3. Jim Ambrose:

    It puts me in a position of somebody who is being proactive about their life. One who is acting in defense of Jim Ambrose and others, to couch it that way informs the listener -- often a potential sexual partner -- that I care what you think, but I know enough about Jim Ambrose to know that if you want to perceive me as a victim, cry for me, be disgusted by me or get up and leave, you can do all of those things.

  4. Sandhya Kumar:

    With the spring time change, you essentially have to go to bed earlier and get up earlier, which is difficult for many of us to do, most of us end up losing 40 to 50 minutes of sleep those first few days—and as a nation that’s significantly sleep deprived to begin with, even that little change can impact health.

  5. Jill Pederson:

    My mom would clean it every week and I would tag along and get up there and pretend to preach to an invisible crowd, in a small community you are all family and that church kept everyone connected in some way and that is what will be missed the most.


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