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go up1(Of a building or other structure) be built: housing developments went up...- The squatters were evicted a week later but a tent city that went up around the building persists.
- Aside from the Norwich Union building, almost every high post-war building that has gone up in York has been a disaster, he points out.
- New apartments are going to be built on the north campus as well as two townhouse structures now currently going up next to the gym.
2Explode or suddenly burst into flames: two factories went up in flames...- It went up in a burst of flame, and only a smoking shell remained when the flames faded.
- Then all of a sudden I just saw all of the downstairs go up in flames, and all the windows smashed.
- In Edinburgh, the council is already preparing for the worst and has contacted Lothian and Borders police in order to prevent the city going up in flames.
3British informal Begin one’s studies at a university, especially Oxford or Cambridge.Well I think really it began to falter when I went up to Oxford University to study chemistry....- In the 1980s, Coutts was the bank with whom Sloane Rangers opened an account before going up to Oxford or Cambridge.
- They continued to correspond on plant matters after going up to university - Fox Talbot to Cambridge and Trevelyan to Oxford.
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