to shoot up
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4.1
- phrasal verb
- /ʃut ʌp/
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dispararse
- In 1973, the wholesale price index shot up by 48.3 percent, while wages increased 16.4 percent.
- shot up by percent
- prices have shot up
- inflation has shot up
And when housing shoots up and oil shoots up and oil has shot up too, it has.
- And when housing shoots up and oil shoots up and oil has shot up too, it has.
- Now, during the conversation that Jerome had here, bond yields shot up actually substantially.
- So when gold shoots up, it, it drags silver up because it's cheaper.
- And then half an hour before waking up, it'll shoot up to as warm as I can handle it.
- And that's when New York, Chicago, you know, these cities shot up.
- It quickly shot up from almost my worst performing video to my best.
- And yet yet despite all these things, hospitalizations are still shooting up.
- Fur seals, king Penguins around Antarctica, their numbers have shot up.
- The fact is that those successes have shot up the stock market today on incredible excitement.
- AMC, the movie theater chain was also shooting up.
- When some of the pound, you know, almost reached one with the dollar gilt rate shot up and then suddenly what's called the debt management officers were like, oh, we.
- He told me he was the one that shot up the business.
Examples
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By contrast, in 1990 military assistance shot up to $35 million.
Academic text (1991) -
It quickly shot up from almost my worst performing video to my best.
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The number of people who meet their partners online shoot up, and in some ways, this is a really good thing.
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And so they just announced this week and their stock shares shot up because this is a huge money maker for the US.
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The number of women in who run for office and who win seats shoot up dramatically.
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Revenues for recycling firms have shot up over the past year.
Academic text (1995) -
For women in high-powered jobs, pay levels have shot up 16.4 percent.
Academic text (1996) -
At Riverside, for example, black and Latino student admissions shot up by 42 and 31 percent, respectively.
Academic text (2001) -
Virtually overnight, his approval rating shot up thirty-five percentage points, cresting soon afterward at 90 percent.
Academic text (2003) -
The price of oil has shot up rapidly after the announcement of new sanctions.
Synonyms
144
2.1
To rise suddenly by a large amount
136
4.3
To increase very quickly in number or size
96
3.4
To rise quickly to a very high level, for example prices or temperatures
54
3.7
To rise very quickly in amount or value
52
4.1
To rise very quickly to a high level
51
3.4
To rise suddenly and sharply
41
3.7
To rise suddenly and strongly in amount or number
39
3.9
To make prices rise to a higher level, often quickly
25
3.6
To raise a price or fee suddenly by a large amount
12
5.9
To raise prices or rent suddenly by a lot
11
4.1
To increase very quickly
7
2.7
To swell or become larger suddenly
3
4.8
Raise prices or fees suddenly by a large amount
3
5.9
Rise very quickly, for example prices or demand
2
4.4
Increase very quickly to a much higher level
2
5.7
To rise very quickly to a much higher level
1
3.8
Rise very quickly to a much higher level
1
4.8
To raise prices by a large amount, often suddenly
Rise quickly to a much higher level, for example prices or temperatures
To rise suddenly in amount or feeling
Antonyms
How Fast
Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense 'to increase quickly' is a straightforward compositional extension of a motion verb plus directional particle: 'shoot' evokes a rapid outward/upward motion and 'up' specifies upward/increasing direction. This image-based, metaphorical extension is common cross-linguistically and follows normal English verb+particle patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can reasonably infer the meaning.
Etymology
Shoot up comes from the picture of something suddenly going straight up, like a young plant shoot growing fast or a rocket shooting up into the sky. That's why it means 'to increase quickly'.