get up

get up
    v 1: rise to one's feet; "The audience got up and applauded"
         [syn: {arise}, {rise}, {uprise}, {get up}, {stand up}]
         [ant: {lie}, {lie down}, {sit}, {sit down}]
    2: get up and out of bed; "I get up at 7 A.M. every day"; "They
       rose early"; "He uprose at night" [syn: {get up}, {turn out},
       {arise}, {uprise}, {rise}] [ant: {bed}, {crawl in}, {go to
       bed}, {go to sleep}, {hit the hay}, {hit the sack}, {kip
       down}, {retire}, {sack out}, {turn in}]
    3: raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands";
       "Lift a load" [syn: {raise}, {lift}, {elevate}, {get up},
       {bring up}] [ant: {bring down}, {get down}, {let down},
       {lower}, {take down}]
    4: cause to rise; "The sergeant got us up at 2 A.M."
    5: develop; "we worked up an as of an appetite" [syn: {work up},
       {get up}]
    6: 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"
       [syn: {overdress}, {dress up}, {fig out}, {fig up}, {deck
       up}, {gussy up}, {fancy up}, {trick up}, {deck out}, {trick
       out}, {prink}, {attire}, {get up}, {rig out}, {tog up}, {tog
       out}] [ant: {dress down}, {underdress}]
    7: arrange by systematic planning and united effort; "machinate
       a plot"; "organize a strike"; "devise a plan to take over the
       director's office" [syn: {organize}, {organise}, {prepare},
       {devise}, {get up}, {machinate}]
    8: study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my
       Latin verbs before the final exam" [syn: {cram}, {grind
       away}, {drum}, {bone up}, {swot}, {get up}, {mug up}, {swot
       up}, {bone}]
    

100 Moby Thesaurus words for "get up":
      arise, assemble, awake, awaken, bedizen, bone up, brew, bristle,
      brush up, build, cast, cock up, come alive, compose, compound,
      concoct, construct, cram, cram up, create, deck out, decoct,
      devise, dizen, doll up, dress up, elaborate, erect, evolve,
      extrude, fabricate, fancy up, fashion, fig out, fix up, form,
      formulate, frame, fudge together, get up on, greet the day,
      gussy up, hit the deck, indite, jump up, make, make up,
      manufacture, mature, mix, mold, overdress, patch together,
      piece together, pile out, polish up, prank, prefabricate, prepare,
      pretty up, primp, prink, produce, put together, put up, rag out,
      raise, ramp, read up on, rear, rear up, rise, rise up, roll out,
      rouse, rub up, run up, set up, shape, sit bolt upright, sit up,
      slick up, spruce up, stand up, stick up, stir, study up,
      study up on, titivate, trick out, trick up, turn out, upheave,
      uprear, uprise, wake, wake up, whomp up, work up, write