go up

present singular third person goes up · participle present going up · past went up · participle past gone up

1. intransitiveTo move upwards.

   Synonyms: ascend, rise, descend, go down

2. intransitiveTo be built or erected.

   There are new offices going up in town.

3. intransitiveTo rise or increase in price, cost, or value.

   Bananas have gone up because of a shortage.

   Synonyms: rise, increase

4. intransitiveTo be consumed by fire.

   The building went up in smoke. Once the fire got out of the basement, the building went up in minutes.

   Synonyms: burn up, burn, combust, forburn, outburn, torch

5. intransitiveperforming artsTo forget lines or blocks during public performance.

   The producer hopes nobody goes up opening night.

   Synonyms: foul up

6. UKdatedintransitiveTo attend university.

   Synonyms: go to, read, study

7. intransitiveTo be imprisoned.

   He went up in the spring.

   Synonyms: go under

8. ball gamesTo appeal for a dismissal.
9. intransitiveTo go bankrupt; to be ruined.

   Synonyms: go bust, zero out

10. intransitiveBaltimoreTo break down; to stop working.
11. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, up.