Definition

1. Verb (intransitive):

   • To rise from a lying or sitting position to a standing position: This is the most common meaning, referring to the physical act of standing up.
   • To get out of bed: Specifically refers to leaving one's bed after sleeping or resting.
   • To rise or increase: Can refer to something, like wind or sea, becoming stronger or more intense.

2. Verb (transitive):

   • To cause to rise or stand: To help or force someone or something into an upright position.
   • To organize or arrange: To plan and prepare an event or activity.
   • To develop or acquire: To generate or work up a particular feeling, state, or thing.
   • To dress in a special or elaborate way: To put on particular clothes, often formal or fancy.

Examples of Usage

• Intransitive Verb:

  • Please get up when the judge enters the room.
  • I get up at 6 AM every weekday for work.
  • The wind is starting to get up; a storm might be coming.

• Transitive Verb:

  • He helped the fallen cyclist to get up.
  • The students got up a petition to change the school policy.
  • She couldn't get up the courage to ask for a raise.
  • They got themselves up in Victorian costumes for the themed party.

Advanced Usage

• "to get up to": To be involved in or doing something, often something mischievous or secretive.
  • What have those children been getting up to in the garden?
• "to get up in arms": To become very angry or upset about something (an idiom).
  • Residents got up in arms over the proposed construction project.

Variants and Related Words

• Get-up (noun, informal): An outfit or costume.
  • She was wearing a strange get-up for the costume party.
• Getting-up (noun): The act or time of rising from bed.
  • Early getting-up is difficult for me.

Synonyms

• Arise: To get up, especially from bed or a seated position (formal).
• Rise: To move from a lower to a higher position.
• Stand up: To rise to a standing position.
• Organize: To arrange and prepare.
• Dress up: To wear fancy or formal clothes.

Related Phrasal Verbs

• Get up against: To come into close contact or conflict with.
  • Don't get up against the wet paint.
• Get up for (something): To become excited, motivated, or prepared for an event.
  • The team needs to get up for the big game next week.

Related Idioms

• Get someone's back up: To annoy or irritate someone.
  • His constant criticism really gets my back up.
• Get up on the wrong side of the bed: To be in a bad mood from the start of the day.
  • He's been grumpy all morning; he must have gotten up on the wrong side of the bed.

Verb

1. study intensively, as before an exam
   • I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam
2. arrange by systematic planning and united effort
   • machinate a plot
   • organize a strike
   • devise a plan to take over the director's office
3. put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive
   • She never dresses up, even when she goes to the opera
   • The young girls were all fancied up for the party
4. develop
   • we worked up an as of an appetite
5. cause to rise
   • The sergeant got us up at 2 A.M.
6. raise from a lower to a higher position
   • Raise your hands
   • Lift a load
7. get up and out of bed
   • I get up at 7 A.M. every day
   • They rose early
   • He uprose at night
8. rise to one's feet
   • The audience got up and applauded