get up

rise to one''s feet

• “The audience got up and applauded”

get up and out of bed

• “I get up at 7 A.M. every day”
• “They rose early”
• “He uprose at night”

raise from a lower to a higher position

• “Raise your hands”
• “Lift a load”

cause to rise

• “The sergeant got us up at 2 A.M.”

develop

• “we worked up an as of an appetite”

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”

arrange by systematic planning and united effort

• “machinate a plot”
• “organize a strike”
• “devise a plan to take over the director”

study intensively, as before an exam

• “I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam”