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go up

verb

  1. to ascend
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Wiktionary

verb

  1. To move upwards.
  2. To be built or erected.

    There are new offices going up in town.

  3. To rise or increase in price, cost, or value.

    Bananas have gone up because of a shortage.

  4. To be consumed by fire.

    The building went up in smoke. Once the fire got out of the basement, the building went up in minutes.

  5. To forget lines or blocks during public performance.

    The producer hopes nobody goes up opening night.

  6. To attend university.
  7. To be imprisoned.

    He went up in the spring.

  8. To appeal for a dismissal.
  9. To go bankrupt; to be ruined.
  10. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, up.