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Get up

verb

Rise to one's feet. Synonyms: arise, rise, stand up, uprise.

Get up and out of bed. Synonyms: arise, rise, turn out, uprise. "They rose early" , "He uprose at night"

Raise from a lower to a higher position. Synonyms: bring up, elevate, lift, raise. "Lift a load"

Cause to rise.

Develop. Synonym: work up.

Put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive. Synonyms: attire, deck out, deck up, dress up, fancy up, fig out, fig up, gussy up, overdress, prink, rig out, tog out, tog up, trick out, trick up. "The young girls were all fancied up for the party"

Arrange by systematic planning and united effort. Synonyms: devise, machinate, organise, organize, prepare. "Organize a strike" , "Devise a plan to take over the director's office"

Study intensively, as before an exam. Synonyms: bone, bone up, cram, drum, grind away, mug up, swot, swot up.

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"Get up" Quotes from Famous Books

... no time for any other correspondence but that between tea and bed, when a little rest and amusement is almost necessary for him—then waking in the night to think of bullion and Exchequer Bills till time to get up. Now this great anxiety is partly over; for when once he has taken a resolution, after all the reflection and consideration he can give to a subject, he feels that he has done his best, and awaits its success or failure with ...

— Lady John Russell • Desmond MacCarthy and Agatha Russell

... very troublesome, and must be over-mastered. If I could only get up some of the siege-train guns to help you. Let some one go back to the artillery park, and tell them I want a couple ...

— The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood • Arthur Griffiths

... many people imagine that "your Uncle Sam" will frazzle hell's bells out of Spain in one word and two motions, that all of this preparation for threatened conflict with Spain is much ado about little; that the United States will get up early some morning and administer the paternal slipper to the Spanish pantaloon, simply by way of diversion or to get up an appetite for breakfast. The result of the scrap may show that the job had best be undertaken after a ...

— Volume 12 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann

... abandoned all thoughts of the law. I went into the country, but could not bear solitude, yet could not enjoy society. There was a dismal horror continually on my mind that made me fear to be alone. I had often to get up in the night and seek the bedroom of my brother, as if the having of a human being by me would relieve me from the frightful gloom of ...

— Continental Monthly, Vol. I, No. VI, June, 1862 - Devoted To Literature and National Policy • Various

... sir." Yawning until he strained his face, the guest jumped out of bed and unlocked the door. The bellboy handed him an envelope and then went away quickly. The guest opened the envelope, and took out a slip of paper bearing the words: "It's time to get up." ...

— Jokes For All Occasions - Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers • Anonymous

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