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to get up

to get up

221 1.0
To make someone leave their bed or stand up
  • phrasal verb
  • /ɡɛt ʌp/
translation icon : levantar a alguien
  • Get up my friend.

Sorry for making you get up a few years ago.

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Examples

  • Every morning, I have to get up early to prepare breakfast for my children.

  • I kept rebuking, and then finally got up, even though I was still tired.

    Blog text (24)

  • I need you to get up right now and take care of it.

  • Here, can you get up?

    Gable and Lombard (1976)

  • I heard his calm voice: "Come on, honey, you need to get up from there."

    Fiction book (1990)

  • At nine o'clock, he would get up and have his breakfast.

    Academic text (1992)

  • Get up, Bobby.

    Thunderbolts* (2025)

  • She always struggles to get up from the couch after a long day at work.

  • After a long night, I found it hard to get up and start the day.

Synonyms

to lift
vsto get up
553 1.0

To raise something higher by hand or with a machine

is about causing a person to rise from bed or sitting rather than moving objects
to lift up
vsto get up
107 1.1

To raise someone or something to a higher place

causes a person to rise from bed or from sitting or lying position
to push up
vsto get up
11 2.1

Move something to a higher place by pushing from below or behind

causes a person to rise without specifying force direction used
to raise up
vsto get up
7 2.1

To lift something or someone to a higher place

focuses on making a person stand from lying or sitting, not changing level
to heave up
vsto get up
  • Informal
3 4.5

To lift something heavy with a lot of effort

causes a person to rise without needing extreme force or effort

How Forceful

to drag
704 2.0
to get up
221 1.0
to wake up
∞ 1.0
to nudge
33 3.8

Surface Forms

get up infinitive
getting up present participle
gets up third person singular
got up past
got up past participle

Morphology

get + up

The meaning 'to put on special clothing' is related to the idea of preparing or making oneself ‘up’, so there is a partial link between 'get' (become/prepare) and the particle 'up' (finish/intensify). However, the primary and more common sense of 'get up' is 'rise from bed', and the dressing sense is less predictable (often requires preposition 'in' or contextual cues), so a B1 learner who only knows the literal constituents is unlikely to reliably infer this specific sense without exposure.

Etymology

Get up in the sense of making someone rise comes from the picture of waking or lifting another person: imagine a parent shaking a child or calling them so they get up. So it means 'to cause someone to rise from bed or from a sitting or lying position'.