From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishget up phrasal verb1 get (somebody) upWAKE UP/GET UP to get out of your bed after sleeping, or to make someone get out of their bed We didn’t get up until lunchtime. Get me up at seven, would you?2 STANDto stand up He got up and walked over to the window.3 DNif a wind or storm gets up, it starts and gets stronger4 be got up as/in something British English informalPRETEND to be dressed in particular clothes He arrived at the party got up as Count Dracula. The men were all got up in suits.5 get it up informalSY to get an erection(1) → get→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
get up• He could not think of a reason to get up.• So they knock me down and I shake my head and I get up.• I got up about seven, had a little breakfast and went to catch the bus for Fulham.• Masklin got up and padded across the metal floor to the door.• She got up and turned off the TV.• Frank gets up at half past five every morning.• I think we should get up early and leave before breakfast.• Why is always me who gets up first?• Max got up from his chair and shook her hand.• When Maura came in, he got up from the table and poured the coffee.• I can't get up. Give me a hand, will you?• I watched how slowly he got up, how stiff he seemed.• She goes to bed late and gets up late.• It would be awful to get up next morning and find she had drifted down the canal.• One of her friends helped her to get up off the floor.• I got up off the grass and strolled over to where Rob was sitting.• I was left with Maria when the others got up to dance.• Alice hurriedly put out the cigarette and got up to empty the ash tray.• Automatically I got up to object, but again I caught myself and sat down without a word.• What time do you need to get up tomorrow?get (somebody) up• I dreaded to think what would happen if the two got mixed up.• Your time and my time ... well they've somehow got all mixed up.• I fell down, knocked me walking-frame over and I couldn't get meself up again.• If you get his/her back up, even if you're right, you're dead!• While attached to Camp Pendleton, however, the Gulf War veteran got swept up in an off-base drug scene.• Any damned fool can get a plane up in the air.• Left unstirred, simmering soup will produce a scum that gets caught up in the eddies.• He could get caught up in the story, so to speak, and little by little begin to forget himself.be got up as/in something• More visionary railway schemes were got up in the inter-war years.get it up• He'd see it raise slightly, but he couldn't quite get it up.• Probably a child molester, probably couldn't get it up for anything normal.• She won't be able to get it up on her own anyway.• Energy in one form or another has been invested in it to get it up there.• And she's got it up top, an' all. 