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Verb get up has 8 senses
- arise, rise, uprise, get up, stand up - rise to one's feet; "The audience got up and applauded"
--1 is one way to change posture
Sample sentence:
Sam and Sue get up
- get up, turn out, arise, uprise, rise - get up and out of bed; "I get up at 7 A.M. every day"; "They rose early"; "He uprose at night"
Antonyms: go to bed, turn in, bed, crawl in, kip down, hit the hay, hit the sack, sack out, go to sleep, retire
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
- raise, lift, elevate, get up, bring up - raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load"
--3 is one way to move, displace
Sample sentence:
The men get up the chairs
- get up - cause to rise; "The sergeant got us up at 2 A.M."
--4 is one way to raise, lift, elevate, get up, bring up
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
- work up, get up - develop; "we worked up an as of an appetite"
--5 is one way to grow, develop, produce, get, acquire
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- 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 out, overdress - 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"
--6 is one way to dress, get dressed
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
- organize, organise, prepare, devise, get up, machinate - arrange by systematic planning and united effort; "machinate a plot"; "organize a strike"; "devise a plan to take over the director's office"
--7 is one way to initiate, pioneer
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- cram, grind away, drum, bone up, swot, get up, mug up, swot up, bone - study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam"
--8 is one way to study, hit the books
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something PP
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