go up
v 1: move upward; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the
forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows" [syn: rise,
lift, arise, move up, come up, uprise] [ant:
descend]
2: increase in value or to a higher point; "prices climbed
steeply"; "the value of our house rose sharply last year"
[syn: rise, climb]
3: move towards; "We were approaching our destination"; "They
are drawing near"; "The enemy army came nearer and nearer"
[syn: approach, near, come on, draw near, draw
close, come near]
4: be erected, built, or constructed; "New buildings are going
up everywhere"
5: go upward with gradual or continuous progress; "Did you ever
climb up the hill behind your house?" [syn: climb, climb
up, mount]
6: burn completely; be consumed or destroyed by fire; "The hut
burned down"; "The mountain of paper went up in flames"
[syn: burn down, burn up]
7: travel up, "We ascended the mountain"; "go up a ladder";
"The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope" [syn: ascend]
[ant: descend]
WordNet (r) 2.0
79 Moby Thesaurus words for "go up":
accrue, accumulate, advance, appreciate, arise, ascend, balloon,
be ruined, become insolvent, bloat, boom, break, breed, broaden,
bust, collapse, come up, crash, crescendo, curl upwards, develop,
fail, fold, fold up, gain, gain strength, get ahead, go bankrupt,
go broke, go into receivership, go to glory, go to hell,
go to perdition, go to pot, go to ruin, go to shivers, go to smash,
go to smithereens, go under, go wrong, grow, grow up, increase,
intensify, levitate, loom, mount, multiply, proliferate, rear,
rear up, rise, rise up, run up, shoot up, shut down, snowball,
spiral, spire, spread, stand up, strengthen, surge, swarm up,
sweep up, swell, tower, up, upgo, upgrow, upheave, uprise, upspin,
upstream, upsurge, upswarm, upwind, wax, widen
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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