Definition

1. Intransitive Verb:
   • To move or travel to a higher position or level: To ascend or climb.
   • To increase in level, amount, or value: To rise.
   • To be built or erected: To be constructed.
   • To be destroyed by fire: To burn completely.
   • To approach or move towards something: To come nearer.

Examples of Usage

• Intransitive Verb:
  • The elevator will go up to the top floor.
  • Prices tend to go up during times of inflation.
  • New apartment buildings are going up in the city center.
  • The old barn went up in flames very quickly.
  • As we went up the hill, the view became spectacular.

Advanced Usage

• "to go up against someone/something": To compete with or oppose a person, team, or challenge.
  • Our team will go up against the champions next week.
• "to go up in smoke": To be destroyed by fire; figuratively, to fail or come to nothing.
  • All our careful plans went up in smoke after the budget was cut.
• "to go up to a place/person": To approach or move near to a location or individual.
  • I saw him and went up to say hello.

Variants and Related Words

• Upswing (n): An increase or improvement.
  • The economy is showing an upswing.
• Upward (adj/adv): Moving or directed toward a higher position.
  • The upward trend continued for months.

Synonyms

• Ascend: To go or move upward.
• Rise: To move from a lower to a higher position; to increase.
• Climb: To go upward, especially using effort.
• Approach: To come near or nearer to.

Related Phrasal Verbs

• Go up to: To approach and reach a particular point, level, or person.
  • The temperature went up to 40 degrees.
• Go up in the world: To become more successful or improve one's social status.
  • He has really gone up in the world since he started his own company.

Related Idioms

• Go up the wall: To become extremely angry, anxious, or frustrated.
  • My parents will go up the wall if I'm late again.
• Go up a blind alley: To pursue a course of action that leads nowhere or is unproductive.
  • Researching that theory was going up a blind alley.

Verb

1. travel up, "We ascended the mountain"
   • go up a ladder
   • The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope
2. burn completely; be consumed or destroyed by fire
   • The hut burned down
   • The mountain of paper went up in flames
3. go upward with gradual or continuous progress
   • Did you ever climb up the hill behind your house?
4. be erected, built, or constructed
   • New buildings are going up everywhere
5. move towards
   • We were approaching our destination
   • They are drawing near
   • The enemy army came nearer and nearer
6. increase in value or to a higher point
   • prices climbed steeply
   • the value of our house rose sharply last year
7. move upward
   • The fog lifted
   • The smoke arose from the forest fire
   • The mist uprose from the meadows