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to go up

to go up

95 2.0
To be built
  • phrasal verb
  • /ɡoʊ ʌp/
: construirse
  • Nothing has changed, but two more houses went up on our street.
  • housing projects went up

From now on, we'll be blogging the house going up.

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Examples

  • There are cement walls going up, blocking their view.

  • So these buildings go up throughout the course of Hadrian's reign.

  • Tomorrow, the signs are going up.

    The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)

  • The construction workers are on a lunch break from the new building going up down the street.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • When the apartment building went up almost forty years ago, it was the first in the neighborhood.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • There's a high rise going up on Wilshire.

    Absentia (2011)

  • By 1970, however, two shopping centers went up on remnant agricultural land.

    Academic text (1998)

  • Already the yuppie condos are going up in Freedmen's Town.

    Academic text (2004)

  • The first non-CERN website went up at SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) in December 1991.

    Academic text (2012)

  • Two new apartments will go up on this vacant lot next month.

Synonyms

to erect
vsto go up
80 4.1

Build something like a wall or statue

refers to the structure becoming built rather than the action of building
to put up
vsto go up
59 3.0

Build something like a wall or sign

refers to the structure becoming built rather than the action of building
to raise
vsto go up
46 3.7

To build a structure like a house or barn

refers to the structure becoming built rather than the action of building

Antonyms

to collapse
579 3.9

To fall down suddenly, for example when a person faints or a building breaks

How Complete

completed
1.0
to go up
95 2.0
to start
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

go up infinitive
went up past
going up present participle
goes up third person singular
gone up past participle

Morphology

go + up

There is a clear compositional link: 'go' = become and 'up' signals a change into an 'up' state, so the idea of something becoming available is partially derivable. However, the specific reading 'be posted / uploaded / published (online)' depends on a metaphorical extension of up = online/published and on discourse conventions, so a B1 learner who only knows the literal words may not reliably infer this exact sense.

Etymology

Go up — The verb go up comes from the picture of a building rising from the ground: as workers lift walls and floors up, the new structure goes up, so it means 'to be built'.