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get up

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To get up is to leave your bed in the morning and stand. The hardest phrasal verb in English on a cold Monday.

It also means simply to rise to your feet from any position. The related noun getup, written as one word, means an outfit, usually an odd one. Get-up-and-go is energy and initiative. There is a British sense of organising something, since getting up a petition means starting one. The phrase what time do you get up is one of the first questions any learner is taught.

Definitions of get up

  1. 1phraseget upTo rise from bed in the morning.A1

    “I have to get up at five tomorrow.”

  2. 2phrasefeetTo rise to your feet.A2

    “He tried to get up and could not.”

Practised in Everyday Verbs, A Man Called Ove

First appears in chapter 2 of A Man Called Ove.

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