get%20up
verb
- 1
To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb.
“I'm having difficulty getting up the stairs.”
- 2
To rise from one's bed (often implying to wake up).
“I didn't get up until midday.”
- 3
To move from a sitting or lying position to a standing position; to stand up.
“Get up off the couch and clean this mess!”
- 4
To materialise; to grow stronger.
“As dusk fell a storm got up.”
- 5
To bring together; to amass.
“The general got up a large body of men.”
- 6
To gather or grow larger by accretion.
“I could see that he was getting up a temper.”
- 7
To go towards the attacking goal.
- 8
To criticise.
“He got up me about the mess I made in the kitchen.”
- 9
To annoy.
- 10
To dress in a certain way, especially extravagantly.
“She was all got up in the most ridiculous frilly dress.”
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