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

“Those numbers do go up, but eventually they do go down. The message will get out, and it will slow down.”

From Los Angeles Times

He added: "So I went up into a top field and saw what I thought at the time to be a paraglider on the moor edge, engines and lights everywhere."

From BBC

"Insurance went up," he tells us, "so wages went down."

From BBC

"Rates bills will still be going up year-on-year, even for those receiving relief, and hotels, which were facing the biggest increases, have been excluded completely," it added.

From BBC

Pete Robinson said he was feeding his sheep when he heard sirens and saw a "massive response going up Blackstone Edge".

From BBC

Related Words

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• multiply
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• swell