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Verb: go up
  1. Move upward
    "The fog went up";
    - rise, lift, arise, move up, come up, uprise [archaic, literary]
     
  2. Increase in value or to a higher point
    "the value of our house went up sharply last year";
    - rise, climb
     
  3. Travel up
    "go up a ladder";
    - ascend
     
  4. Go upward with gradual or continuous progress
    "The climbers went up the mountain slowly";
    - climb, climb up, mount, ascend
     
  5. Be erected, built, or constructed
    "New buildings are going up everywhere"
     
  6. Burn completely; be consumed or destroyed by fire
    "The mountain of paper went up in flames";
    - burn down, burn up

Derived forms: goes up, gone up, went up, going up

See also: travel

Type of: burn, combust, go, grow, locomote, move, travel