go up

verb

went up; gone up; going up; goes up

intransitive verb

1

chiefly British : to attend a university

2

of an actor : to become confused

3

: to be built or erected

a new sign went up

Phrases

go up in flames

: burn

go up in smoke

: to be destroyed by or as if by burning

Examples of go up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The risk went up to 15% for men and 14% for women once the data was adjusted, said study lead author Erikka Loftfield, an investigator at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland. —Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 1 July 2024

But without mitigations, those odds will only go up as more satellites go into space. —Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 29 June 2024

Hurricane watches went up across the eastern Caribbean, as the islands braced for the first hurricane of what’s expected to be an extremely active storm season. —David Fleshler, Sun Sentinel, 29 June 2024

Maybe demand has gone up: an affordable electric car has rolled off the assembly line, or an efficient energy grid has come online. —Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 29 June 2024

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1