Define the word get up"get up" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
get up
v 1: rise to one's feet; "The audience got up and applauded"
[syn: arise, rise, uprise, stand up] [ant: sit down, lie down]
2: get up and out of bed; "I get up at 7 A.M. every day"; "They
rose early"; "He uprose at night" [syn: turn out, arise,
uprise, rise] [ant: go to bed, go to bed]
3: raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands";
"Lift a load" [syn: raise, lift, elevate, bring up]
[ant: lower]
4: cause to rise; "The sergeant got us up at 2 A.M."
5: develop; "we worked up an as of an appetite" [syn: work up]
6: 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" [syn: dress up, fig out, fig up, deck up, gussy up, fancy up, trick up, deck out, trick out, prink,
attire, rig out, tog up, tog out, overdress]
[ant: dress down]
7: arrange by systematic planning and united effort; "machinate
a plot"; "organize a strike"; "devise a plan to take over
the director's office" [syn: organize, organise, prepare,
devise, machinate]
8: study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on
my Latin verbs before the final exam" [syn: cram, grind away, drum, bone up, swot, mug up, swot up, bone]
"get up" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
100 Moby Thesaurus words for "get up":
arise, assemble, awake, awaken, bedizen, bone up, brew, bristle,
brush up, build, cast, cock up, come alive, compose, compound,
concoct, construct, cram, cram up, create, deck out, decoct,
devise, dizen, doll up, dress up, elaborate, erect, evolve,
extrude, fabricate, fancy up, fashion, fig out, fix up, form,
formulate, frame, fudge together, get up on, greet the day,
gussy up, hit the deck, indite, jump up, make, make up,
manufacture, mature, mix, mold, overdress, patch together,
piece together, pile out, polish up, prank, prefabricate, prepare,
pretty up, primp, prink, produce, put together, put up, rag out,
raise, ramp, read up on, rear, rear up, rise, rise up, roll out,
rouse, rub up, run up, set up, shape, sit bolt upright, sit up,
slick up, spruce up, stand up, stick up, stir, study up,
study up on, titivate, trick out, trick up, turn out, upheave,
uprear, uprise, wake, wake up, whomp up, work up, write
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