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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

... the marrow; and the chief of them is the Rev. Father Cobb. Each of them is clever—far cleverer than many of the half-feathered curates and full-fledged incumbents who are constantly bringing railing accusations against them; and they work harder—get up sooner, go to bed later—than the whole of them. They jump at midnight if their services are required by either a wild Irishman in Canal-street or a gentleman of the first water in any of our mansions. ...

— Our Churches and Chapels • Atticus

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... to drop my work now, dearie," said Aunt Trudy in response to her niece's appeal. "I always lose my needle when I get up; I'll meet your little friend some other time. Ask her to dinner to-night if you wish—Winnie is going to have veal ...

— Rosemary • Josephine Lawrence

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... asked my companion, twisting round in his seat. I nodded. "Right-o! I'm going to get up higher. We are ...

— How I Filmed the War - A Record of the Extraordinary Experiences of the Man Who - Filmed the Great Somme Battles, etc. • Lieut. Geoffrey H. Malins

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... "The one near the window. You always liked the fresh air, the sunshine in the morning. You always said it helped you to get up on time when you were stationed at the base outside of town. You always said it reminded you—being able to see the sky—that you were going to go up in it, and that you were going to come down from it ...

— The First One • Herbert D. Kastle

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... do the catechism itself, and it bores me to have to remain until the very end and hear the very last opinion of some fool upon the comedy, or the book, or the divorce, or the marriage, or the death that is being discussed. Now, do you understand why I always get up and go at the sound ...

— A Comedy of Marriage & Other Tales • Guy De Maupassant

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