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Go up

verb

Move upward. Synonyms: arise, come up, lift, move up, rise, uprise. "The smoke arose from the forest fire" , "The mist uprose from the meadows"

Increase in value or to a higher point. Synonyms: climb, rise. "The value of our house rose sharply last year"

Move towards. Synonyms: approach, come near, come on, draw close, draw near, near. "They are drawing near" , "The enemy army came nearer and nearer"

Be erected, built, or constructed.

Go upward with gradual or continuous progress. Synonyms: climb, climb up, mount.

Burn completely; be consumed or destroyed by fire. Synonyms: burn down, burn up. "The mountain of paper went up in flames"

Travel up,. Synonym: ascend. "Go up a ladder" , "The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope"

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"Go up" Quotes from Famous Books

... voting paper. Me an' Carry will go up for 'em to-morrer," said grandma one evening from her arm-chair ...

— Some Everyday Folk and Dawn • Miles Franklin

... me well advised as to the progress of the proceedings, and it was eventually settled that each of the three brother chiefs were to gather together three hundred fighting men, making nine hundred altogether, and these in a few days' time were to go up and avenge the deaths of their fellow tribesmen. From the enthusiasm displayed amongst the little men, this was evidently carried unanimously, but I noticed two young men sitting aloof from the rest of the crowd and looking rather sullen and frightened, and as they ...

— Wanderings Among South Sea Savages And in Borneo and the Philippines • H. Wilfrid Walker

... these cannot a city be inhabited: and they shall not dwell where they will, nor go up ...

— Deuteronomical Books of the Bible - Apocrypha • Anonymous

... had not known of them, save for the telling of that book; though, in truth, it had been always supposed that we lived in a great deep of the world; but, indeed, it was rather held in belief that we abode in the bed of some ancient sea, that did surely slope gradual away from us, and not go up abrupt and savage. ...

— The Night Land • William Hope Hodgson

... and saw the twelve jurymen go up stairs with a clatter of feet, and come down again, one after the other, less noisily, and some of them looking grave. Nobody took any notice of her, until ...

— Mistress and Maid • Dinah Craik (aka: Miss Mulock)

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