go up
— phrasal verb with go uk/ɡəʊ/us/ɡoʊ/verb present participle going, past tense went, past participle gone
(RISE)
B1 to move higher, rise, or increase:
The average cost of a new house has gone up by five percent to £276,500.
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- Train fares are going up again.
- Her salary will go up by a hefty 10%.
- The curtain went up on another performance.
- The area has recently become very fashionable and house prices are going up.
- A flag goes up to indicate that the runners are ready.
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Increasing and intensifying
- -ify
- a snowball effect idiom
- accretion
- accumulate
- accumulative
- add fuel to the fire idiom
- balloon
- bump
- dial
- heighten
- hot up
- increase
- increment
- pile
- rack
- speed-up
- spurt
- step
- step sth up
- supersize
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(EXPLODE)
C2 to suddenly explode:
There's a gas leak and the whole building could go up at any moment.
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Exploding and erupting
- blast
- blow (sb/sth) up
- blowout
- burst
- burst in on sb/sth
- burst in/into (somewhere)
- detonate
- explode
- explosion
- explosive
- flare
- go
- go off
- go pop idiom
- ignite
- live
- pop
- set
- set sth off
- test-fire
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(BE FIXED)
If a sign goes up, it is fixed into position:
The new "No Parking" signs went up yesterday.
(BUILD)
If a building goes up, it is built:
A new factory is going up at the site of the old airport.
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Buildng: construction work & workers
- brick
- brick up sth
- bricklayer
- brickwork
- bridge
- builder
- develop
- glazier
- improver
- jerry-built
- joinery
- knock
- roof
- roofer
- roofing
- rouseabout
- scaffolding
- self-build
- slate
- thatch
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(UNIVERSITY)
UK old-fashioned If you go up to a college or university, especially Oxford University or Cambridge University, you begin studying there, or continue studying after a holiday.
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University & college education
- academe
- academia
- academic
- business school
- campus
- Cantabrigian
- grad
- graduate
- grove
- hall of residence
- honour
- intercollegiate
- junior college
- red-brick
- registrar
- semester
- sorority
- student union
- summa cum laude
- varsity
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