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View synonyms for go up

go up

verb

  1. also preposition to move or lead to or as if to a higher place or level; rise; increase

    prices are always going up

    the curtain goes up at eight o'clock

    new buildings are going up all around us

  2. to be destroyed

    the house went up in flames

  3. to go or return (to college or university) at the beginning of a term or academic year


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Example Sentences

So, the display—which has the aesthetic sophistication of a middle school science project—will go up for week.

“On that day, many people want to participate and the searches for those items typically go up,” she says.

On our website, the Nixon tapes go up through, I think, October of 1972.

Cortisol is going to go up, but it should go back down again.

Oh yeah,” she said, “sometimes I like to go up to the hill.

We haven't even seen a review of the piece; the footlights go up with a jump, and now the curtain rises.

Let us go up to Juda, and rouse it up, and draw it away to us, and make the son of Tabeel king in the midst thereof.

“You'll go up them 'ere stairs, young 'oman; you'll not put a foot in the kitchen to-night,” he says more doggedly.

That hollow is a very likely place for one of them to run along, therefore the best shot among you had better go up there.

The engine for Plymouth will be put to break the ground as soon as I can find time to go up there.

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