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

Example Sentences

Under an arrangement called the "triple lock", the UK state pension goes up each year by either 2.5%, inflation or earnings growth - whichever is the highest figure.

From BBC

It’s going to have to pay more than it did last year just to retain players with remaining eligibility given the value of talent in the college game just keeps going up, up, up.

From Los Angeles Times

As they washed slightly wide, Norris went up the inside to pass Russell, but Verstappen fended off the McLaren on the run to Turn Two.

From BBC

“I think prices would have just kept going up.”

From Los Angeles Times

"He had seen evidence of maltreatment and atrocities before we went up into the rubber plantations, but I think what he saw there shifted his whole view of the colonial experience," Patrick said.

From BBC

Related Words

• accelerate
• advance
• ascend
• build
• climb
• double
• expand
• improve
• lift
• move up
• multiply
• pick up
• raise
• soar
• swell