[syn: cram, grind away, drum, bone up, swot, get up, mug up, swot up, bone]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
get up
v 1: rise to one's feet; "The audience got up and applauded"
[syn: arise, rise, uprise, get up, stand up]
[ant: lie, lie down, sit, sit down]
2: get up and out of bed; "I get up at 7 A.M. every day"; "They
rose early"; "He uprose at night" [syn: get up, turn out,
arise, uprise, rise] [ant: bed, crawl in, go to
bed, go to sleep, hit the hay, hit the sack, kip
down, retire, sack out, turn in]
3: raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands";
"Lift a load" [syn: raise, lift, elevate, get up,
bring up] [ant: bring down, get down, let down,
lower, take down]
4: cause to rise; "The sergeant got us up at 2 A.M."
5: develop; "we worked up an as of an appetite" [syn: work up,
get up]
6: put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and
attractive; "She never dresses up, even when she goes to the
opera"; "The young girls were all fancied up for the party"
[syn: overdress, dress up, fig out, fig up, deck
up, gussy up, fancy up, trick up, deck out, trick
out, prink, attire, get up, rig out, tog up, tog
out] [ant: dress down, underdress]
7: arrange by systematic planning and united effort; "machinate
a plot"; "organize a strike"; "devise a plan to take over the
director's office" [syn: organize, organise, prepare,
devise, get up, machinate]
8: study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my
Latin verbs before the final exam" [syn: cram, grind
away, drum, bone up, swot, get up, mug up, swot
up, bone]