go up

British  

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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go up Idioms  

1. Be put up, as in New buildings are going up all over town .

2. Rise; increase. For example, His temperature is going up at an alarming rate , or The costs of construction are going up all the time . [Late 1800s]

3. Also, be gone up . Be destroyed, ruined, done for; also, die, be killed. For example, If we're not back in a week, you'll know we've gone up , or In spite of our efforts, the plans for a new library are gone up . [ Slang ; mid-1800s]

4. Forget one's lines on the stage or make a mistake in performing music. For example, Don't worry, you know your part and you won't go up , or He went up in the last movement of the sonata . [ Slang ; 1960s] Also see the subsequent idioms beginning with go up .

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Example Sentences

But Honore noted that prices moved upward more slowly in the early days of that war: “It’s one thing when fuel prices go up. It’s another when it spikes.”

From The Wall Street Journal

As with stocks, what went up the most in the months preceding the war fell the most as investors pulled back.

From The Wall Street Journal

Starting at around 9 a.m., the vans pull up outside, the shutters on the loading docks go up and drivers wheel the carts to their truck.

From The Wall Street Journal

An older man said prices in the markets were going up.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Our team is just going up from here,” Chiles told Big Ten Network after the meet.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

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