get upverb

• 1

  To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb.

  • The tired horse eventually got up and over the hurdle.
  • I'm having difficulty getting up the stairs.
• 2

  To rise from one's bed, usually upon waking up in order to begin one's day.

  • I didn't get up until midday.
  • We know what it is to get out of bed on a freezing morning in a room without a fire, and how the very vital principle within us protests against the ordeal. Probably most persons have lain on certain mornings for an hour at a time unable to brace themselves to the resolve. We think how late we shall be, how the duties of the day will suffer; we say, "I must get up, this is ignominious," etc.; but still the warm couch feels too delicious, the cold outside too cruel, and resolution faints away and postpones itself again and again just as it seemed on the verge of bursting the resistance and passing over into the decisive act. Now how do we ever get up under such circumstances? If I may generalize from my own experience, we more often than not get up without any struggle or decision at all. We suddenly find that we have got up.
• 3

  To move from a sitting or lying position to a standing position; to stand up.

  • Get up off the couch and clean this mess!
  • That guy's not getting up, is he?
• 4

  To materialise; to grow stronger.

  • As dusk fell a storm got up.
• 5

  To bring together; to amass.

  • The general got up a large body of men.
  • If you're short on cash this month I'll just find another way to get up my half of the rent.
• 6

  To gather or grow larger by accretion.

  • The locomotive got up a good head of steam.
  • I could see that he was getting up a temper.
• 7

  hobbieslifestylesportsTo go towards the attacking goal.

  • City sent on Adam Johnson for the ineffective Jo and the Englishman at least gave notice that he wanted to run at the Arsenal defence, but his team-mates had been run into the ground by then and no-one could get up in support of the winger.
• 8

  To criticise.

  • He got up me about the mess I made in the kitchen.
  • Back in January 1989, as soon as Rod got up me that night, I knew he rated me, cared about what I did and how I performed. I felt I′d climbed a big step up the credibility ladder.