get up
— phrasal verb with get uk/ɡet/us/ɡet/verb present participle getting, past tense got, past participle got or US usually gotten
(STAND)
B2 to stand up:
The whole audience got up and started clapping.
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- The referee urged both players to get up.
- After the fall, he got up and dusted himself off.
- Get up and show your appreciation.
- He knocked the drink over as he was getting up from the chair.
- 'Don't get up. I'll let myself out.'
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Sitting and standing
- akimbo
- astride
- attention
- bestride
- cross-legged
- crouch
- four
- plop
- plump (sb/sth) down
- rampant
- seated
- seating
- sit back
- sit sth out
- stand
- stand round
- strike
- take a pew! idiom
- take the weight off your feet/legs idiom
- weight
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(GROW STRONG)
UK If the wind gets up, it starts to grow stronger:
The wind is getting up.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Wind & winds
- airstream
- anemometer
- blast
- breeze
- choppy
- drafty
- draught
- dust devil
- El Niño
- eolian
- hurricane
- jet stream
- northeast
- northeasterly
- prevailing
- southeasterly
- southerly
- the Beaufort scale
- tornado
- wind gauge
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