to get up
4
3.7
- phrasal verb
- /ɡɛt ʌp/
:
vestirse
- When we get up to the pass, we'll put on our fish costumes.
Examples
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Every morning he got up at three to drive Luanne to Bunny Bread, where she worked on the bagging line, but first he'd cook up breakfast: eggs and biscuits.
Fiction book (1995) -
They're going to church down in the villages, all got up in their sunday best, and the organ is playing, and the windows are shining...
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Get up in your top-shelf clothes
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She decided to get up in a beautiful dress for the wedding.
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Before the big party, he got up in a flashy suit to impress everyone.
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For the gala, they got up in elegant outfits that turned heads.
Synonyms
679
1.0
To dress yourself in clothes or wear things like makeup
253
1.0
To put on clothes
178
2.7
Put on special clothes for an event or to look attractive
82
2.6
To put on a piece of clothing
38
4.0
Put on formal clothes or a uniform for an event
28
2.0
To put on different clothes for a certain activity
15
4.1
To make a person or a room look special with clothes and decorations
8
7.2
To get ready by fixing your clothes, hair, or makeup carefully
7
3.9
Make yourself look attractive by dressing and doing your hair or makeup
7
4.6
To put on special clothes to look nice or impressive
6
4.3
Make people and places look nicer by dressing up, adding decorations, or using makeup
5
8.6
To dress or decorate in a fancy way to look nicer
1
7.4
To make something like a car or outfit look very fancy by adding bright decorations
1
6.8
Make yourself or someone more stylish using clothes and makeup
1
7.2
To dress up and make yourself look attractive for a special event
1
3.4
To dress someone in special clothes for an event
To put on special clothes to look attractive for an event
To put on special clothes to look nice for an event
To make a person or thing look fancy, often in a showy way
Dress yourself or others in fancy clothes to look impressive
To make someone or something look fancier to impress people
To dress in special clothes to look attractive
To put on fancy clothes to look good
To dress carefully to look fancy
Make something look more stylish and attractive
Make a person look neat and more attractive by dressing and grooming them carefully
To dress in nice clothes for a special event
Antonyms
How Fancy
- Informal
15
4.1
178
2.7
4
3.7
∞
1.0
6
1.9
- Informal
1
3.8
Surface Forms
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 meaning to dress in a special way comes from the picture of preparing your look for an event: you put on nice clothes and arrange your hair to get up and stand out. So it means 'to put on special clothes or dress to look attractive'.