# go up

Pronunciation: say "goh UP" US /ˌɡoʊ ˈʌp/, UK /ˌɡəʊ ˈʌp/

## Phrasal verb

1. To move upward, from a lower position to a higher one.
   - Simple: To move from a lower place to a higher one.
   - _Hot-air balloons go up more easily in the cool morning air._
   - _The rocket went up without a hitch, trailing a column of white smoke._
2. Of a price, cost, or value, to become higher than it was.
   - Simple: To cost more than before, or to be worth more than before.
   - _Gas prices are expected to go up before the holiday weekend._
   - _Her retirement savings have gone up nearly 20 percent since January._
3. Of a building or other structure, to be built or erected.
   - Simple: To be built, like a new house or other building.
   - _Apartment towers seem to go up overnight in this part of the city._
   - _Scaffolding went up around the cathedral last spring._
4. To be consumed by fire; to burn up.
   - Simple: To burn and be destroyed by fire.
   - _Those old timber houses go up like kindling once a fire takes hold._
   - _The warehouse went up in flames before the first fire truck arrived._
5. To fail completely and be ruined, in particular by going bankrupt.
   - Simple: To lose all the money and fail completely, like a business that goes bankrupt.
   - _When the railroad scheme collapsed, a dozen investors went up with it, losing every cent._
   - _Without the loan, the whole firm would go up by the end of the year._
6. To be imprisoned; to be sent to prison.
   - Simple: To be sent to prison.
   - _If the jury convicts him, he'll go up for ten years._
   - _Two of the gang went up for the robbery while the third walked free._
7. To forget one's lines or stage movements during a performance in front of an audience.
   - Simple: To forget what to say or where to move while acting in front of an audience.
   - _In the second act she went up completely, and her scene partner had to feed her the line._
   - _Every actor's nightmare is to go up in front of a full house._
8. In cricket, to appeal to the umpire for a batter's dismissal.
   - Simple: In cricket, to shout to the umpire that the batter should be out.
   - _The whole team went up for the catch behind, but the umpire shook his head._
   - _Bowlers tend to go up for leg before whenever the ball strikes the pad._

## Phrasal verb

9. To attend a university as a student. *(dated, British)*
   - Simple: To go to a university as a student.
   - _He went up to Oxford to read history in the autumn after the war._
   - _Few boys from the village could afford to go up to university in those days._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/go-up (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).