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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Increase in value or to a higher point
Example:
the value of our house rose sharply last year
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "go up" is one way to...):
grow (become larger, greater, or bigger; expand or gain)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go up"):
soar (go or move upward)
bull (advance in price)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sentence example:
The stock market is going to go up
Sense 2
Meaning:
Burn completely; be consumed or destroyed by fire
Example:
The mountain of paper went up in flames
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "go up" is one way to...):
burn; combust (undergo combustion)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go up"):
incinerate (become reduced to ashes)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 3
Meaning:
Go upward with gradual or continuous progress
Example:
Did you ever climb up the hill behind your house?
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "go up" is one way to...):
arise; come up; go up; lift; move up; rise; uprise (move upward)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go up"):
scale (climb up by means of a ladder)
escalade (climb up and over)
ramp (creep up -- used especially of plants)
mountaineer (climb mountains for pleasure as a sport)
ride (climb up on the body)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 4
Meaning:
Be erected, built, or constructed
Example:
New buildings are going up everywhere
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "go up" is one way to...):
arise; come up; go up; lift; move up; rise; uprise (move upward)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 5
Meaning:
Move upward
Example:
The mist uprose from the meadows
Synonyms:
arise; come up; go up; lift; move up; rise; uprise
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "go up" is one way to...):
go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go up"):
ascend; come up; rise; uprise (come up, of celestial bodies)
steam (rise as vapor)
chandelle (climb suddenly and steeply)
uplift (lift up from the earth, as by geologic forces)
bubble (rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles)
rocket; skyrocket (shoot up abruptly, like a rocket)
go up (be erected, built, or constructed)
soar; soar up; soar upwards; surge; zoom (rise rapidly)
climb; climb up; go up; mount (go upward with gradual or continuous progress)
scend; surge (rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force such as a wave)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Sense 6
Meaning:
Travel up
Example:
The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope
Synonyms:
ascend; go up
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "go up" is one way to...):
go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go up"):
come up; rise; rise up; surface (come to the surface)
uprise (ascend as a sound)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
The airplane is sure to go up
Sense 7
Meaning:
Move towards
Example:
The enemy army came nearer and nearer
Synonyms:
approach; come near; come on; draw close; draw near; go up; near
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "go up" is one way to...):
come; come up (move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody)
"Go up" entails doing...:
advance; go on; march on; move on; pass on; progress (move forward, also in the metaphorical sense)
Verb group:
approach; come near (come near in time)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go up"):
drive up (approach while driving)
bear down on; bear down upon (sail towards another vessel, of a ship)
edge in; edge up (push one's way into (a space))
close (draw near)
crowd; push (approach a certain age or speed)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Context examples:
He would not go up to them.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Go up to your own room; think over all I have said, and, Jane, cast a glance on my sufferings—think of me.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Why should we not go up now at once and spy out the land?
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
May we go up every staircase, and into every suite of rooms?
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Still Ivan doubted, and ordered two of his Slavonian hunters to go up alone.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
The day in Richmond Park was charming, for we had a regular English picnic, and I had more splendid oaks and groups of deer than I could copy, also heard a nightingale, and saw larks go up.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The proposal was a very pleasant one to William himself, who enjoyed the idea of travelling post with four horses, and such a good-humoured, agreeable friend; and, in likening it to going up with despatches, was saying at once everything in favour of its happiness and dignity which his imagination could suggest; and Fanny, from a different motive, was exceedingly pleased; for the original plan was that William should go up by the mail from Northampton the following night, which would not have allowed him an hour's rest before he must have got into a Portsmouth coach; and though this offer of Mr. Crawford's would rob her of many hours of his company, she was too happy in having William spared from the fatigue of such a journey, to think of anything else.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Or maybe that was a dream, too, and the awakening would be the changing of the watches, when he would drop down out of his bunk in the lurching forecastle and go up on deck, under the tropic stars, and take the wheel and feel the cool tradewind blowing through his flesh.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
“We must go up and have it out with our friend, the professor.”
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
However, he let her go up as before.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
