If a price, amount, or level goes up, it becomes higher or greater than it was.
Interest rates went up. [VERBPARTICLE]
The cost has gone up to $1.95 a minute. [VP + to/from/by]
Prices have gone up 61 percent since deregulation. [VP amount]
2. phrasal verb
When a building, wall, or other structure goes up, it is built or fixed in place.
He noticed a new building going up near Whitaker Park. [VERBPARTICLE]
3. phrasal verb
If something goes up, it explodes or starts to burn, usually suddenly and with great intensity.
I was going to get out of the building in case it went up. [VERBPARTICLE]
The hotel went up in flames. [VP + in]
4. phrasal verb
If a shout or cheer goes up, it is made by a lot of people together.
A cheer went up from the other passengers. [VERBPARTICLE]
5. phrasal verb
In sport, if a team goes up, they move to a higher division in a league.
[British]
The team needs just one win from their last two games to go up. [VERBPARTICLE]
More Synonyms of go up
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go up in British English
verb(intr, mainly adverb)
1. (also preposition)
to move or lead to or as if to a higher place or level; rise; increase
prices are always going up
the curtain goes up at eight o'clock
new buildings are going up all around us
2.
to be destroyed
the house went up in flames
3. British
to go or return (to college or university) at the beginning of a term or academic year
go up in American English
1.
to rise in value, price, etc.; increase
2. British
to enter a university
See full dictionary entry for go
Examples of 'go up' in a sentence
go up
He told me to go up, he'd join me, which he did, hours later, maybe two or three o'clock in the morning.
Robert Wilson THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS (2002)
So we'll just tag along with you and the band when you go up tomorrow.
O'Connor, Joe DESPERADOES
`I reckon you should be prepared to go up to thirty million for this.
St. James, Ian FINAL RESORT
Obviously if he was going to talk to her, he was going to have to go up and interrupt them.
Melinda Metz REVELATIONS (2001)
In other languages
go up
British English: go up /ɡəʊ ʌp/ VERB
If a price, amount, or level goes up, it becomes higher or greater than it was.
Interest rates went up.
American English: go up
Arabic: يَرْتَفِعُ
Brazilian Portuguese: subir
Chinese: 增长
Croatian: narasti
Czech: stoupat ceny apod.
Danish: gå op
Dutch: omhooggaan
European Spanish: subir ir
Finnish: nousta
French: monter
German: hinaufgehen
Greek: ανεβαίνω
Italian: salire
Japanese: 上がる
Korean: 올라가다
Norwegian: stige
Polish: pójść na górę
European Portuguese: subir
Romanian: a crește
Russian: подниматься
Latin American Spanish: subir
Swedish: gå upp
Thai: เพิ่มขึ้น
Turkish: yükselmek
Ukrainian: підвищуватися
Vietnamese: tăng
All related terms of 'go up'
go belly up
if a company goes belly-up, it fails and does not have enough money to pay its debts
get-up-and-go
energy, drive, or ambition
go up in flames
If something goes up in flames , it starts to burn strongly and is destroyed.
go up in smoke
If something goes up in smoke , it is destroyed by fire .
go up the wall
to become crazy or furious
to go belly-up
(of a company) to not have enough money to pay its debts
go up in flames (or smoke)
to burn
get up
When someone who is sitting or lying down gets up , they rise to a standing position.
go/come up/down in the world
If you say that someone has gone up in the world , you mean they have become richer or have a higher social status than before. If you say they have come down in the world , you mean they have become poorer or have a lower social status.
pick up your marbles and go home
to leave a situation in which you are involved because you are dissatisfied with the way things are going . The use of this expression suggests that you are wrong to do this.
all dressed up with nowhere to go
prepared for something, but with no opportunity to do it
come up in the world
to have more money than you had before and now have a higher social status
Chinese translation of 'go up'
go up
vi
(= rise)[price, level, value]上涨(漲) (shàngzhǎng)
(= go upstairs) 上楼(樓) (shànglóu)
See go
All related terms of 'go up'
go up to
向 ... 走过(過)去 xiàng ... zǒuguòqù
to go up in smoke
( house etc ) 被烧(燒)光 bèi shāoguāng
to go up or rise in price
涨(漲)价(價) zhǎngjià
go without
( food, treats ) 没(沒)有 méiyǒu ...
go with
( combine well with : colours, clothes, foods ) 与(與) ... 协(協)调(調) yǔ ... xiétiáo
( person ) 离(離)开(開) líkāi ( to party, club ) 出去消遣 chūqù xiāoqiǎn ▶ to go out of 离(離)开(開) líkāi ▶ are you going out tonight? 你今晚出去吗(嗎)？ nǐ jīnwǎn chūqù ma?
go on at
( nag ) 向 ... 唠(嘮)唠(嘮)叨叨 xiàng ... láolao-dāodao
go on about
对(對) ... 唠(嘮)唠(嘮)叨叨 duì ... láolao-dāodao
go on
( continue ) 继(繼)续(續) jìxù
go off with
( run away with : lover ) 同 ... 私奔 tóng ... sībēn
go off
( esp Brit : begin to dislike : person, place, idea etc ) 不再喜欢(歡) bù zài xǐhuan
go into
( enter : building, room ) 进(進)入 jìnrù
go in for
( competition ) 参(參)加 cānjiā
go in
( enter ) 进(進)去 jìnqù
go for
( fetch ) 去取 qù qǔ
go down
( fall : price, level, amount ) 下降 xiàjiàng
go by
( vehicle, years, time ) 过(過)去 guòqù
go back to
( activity, work, school ) 回到 huídào
go back on
( promise, agreement ) 背弃(棄) bèiqì
go back
( return ) 返回 fǎnhuí
go away
( leave ) 离(離)开(開) líkāi
go around
( circulate : news, rumour ) 传(傳)播 chuánbō
go along with
( agree with : plan, idea, decision ) 赞(贊)同 zàntóng