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Meaning get up meaning

What does get up mean?
Definitions in simple English

get up

If you get up, you rise after sleeping. I get up very early to go swimming." If you get up, you rise from sitting.

get up

(= rise) rise to one's feet The audience got up and applauded (= uprise, rise) get up and out of bed I get up at 7 A.M. every day They rose early He uprose at night (= raise, lift) raise from a lower to a higher position Raise your hands Lift a load cause to rise The sergeant got us up at 2 A.M. (= work up) develop we worked up an as of an appetite (= dress up, fancy up) 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 (= organize, organise, devise, machinate) arrange by systematic planning and united effort machinate a plot organize a strike devise a plan to take over the director's office (= bone up, bone) study intensively, as before an exam I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam

Synonyms get up synonyms

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Topics get up topics

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Examples get up examples

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Simple sentences

You must get up a little earlier.
You don't get up as early as your sister.
What time do you usually get up?
He will be studying when you get up.

Movie subtitles

Let's hurry up and get out of here.
And we'll get swallowed up in their regime and lose our independence.

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