Particle Up
Different meanings
| Back up | |
| Bob up | |
| Break up | |
| Bubble up | |
| Budge up | |
| Buoy up | |
| Climb up | Lola climbed up a tree to get a better view of the action. |
| Come up | We left early, just as the sun was coming up. |
| Dig up | I don't like that plant. I think I'll dig it up. |
| Double up | |
| Draw up | |
| Fling up | She flung up her hands to protect her face. |
| Get up | It is unusual for her to get up before noon when she's on holiday. |
| Go up | |
| Grub up | |
| Help up | |
| Hike up | |
| Hitch up | |
| Hold up | He held up the World Cup and everybody cheered. |
| Jack up | |
| Jump up | |
| Kick up | |
| Lick up | |
| Lift up | |
| Look up | He looked up and saw a plane. |
| Mark up | |
| Move up | |
| Pick up | I'll pick you up at your house at seven. |
| Poke up | |
| Pop up | -Have you seen her? -I think she's upstairs. I'm sure she wouldn't mind if you popped up. |
| Pull up | Pull-ups are a great exercise for the back. |
| Pump up | |
| Push up | |
| Put up | Do you understand what you have to do? If not put up your hand. |
| Reach up | |
| Rear up | |
| Ride up | |
| Rise up | |
| Roll up | |
| Ruck up | |
| Run up | |
| Scoop up | |
| Scrape up | |
| Screw up | |
| Shin up | |
| Shove up | |
| Show up | |
| Sit up | |
| Snatch up | |
| Spoon up | |
| Spring up | The town sprang up in the shadow of a massive power plant. |
| Stand up | |
| Start up | |
| Stick up | |
| Stir up |
TOP
Up for increasing or improving
| Back up | |
| Bank up | |
| Beef up | He said the company has beefed up security at the facility since the robbery. |
| Blaze up | |
| Blow up | |
| Boil up | |
| Bolster up | |
| Bone up on | |
| Brighten up | Dreadful weather - but it might brighten up. |
| Brush up | I'm looking for a short course to brush up my English before I go on holiday. |
| Brush up on | |
| Buck up | |
| Build up | A little practice will soon build up your confidence. |
| Bump up | They have bumped up the commission from 30% to a whopping 40%. |
| Buoy up | |
| Camp up | |
| Charge up | |
| Cheer up | |
| Churn up | |
| Colour up | |
| Do up | I spent a month doing up the flat and I think it's quite nice now. |
| Doll up | |
| Dose up | |
| Dress up | He didn't dress up for the occasion at all, wearing an orange baseball cap, baggy khakis, and an oversized black sweater. |
| Fatten up | |
| Feed up | |
| Firm up | Surprisingly, the skating rink on the river looks awesome! One cool evening is all we need to firm it up and make it perfect. |
| Fix up | |
| Flare up | Crews worked until the next morning to secure the home and ensure the fire didn't flare up again. |
| Fluff up | |
| Freshen up | |
| Gen up | |
| Get up | |
| Ginger up | China is interested in foreign investment to ginger up the economical development. |
| Go up | We know as a matter of fact that fuel prices will go up in the next two to three weeks. |
| Jazz up | One good way to jazz up your salads is by adding toasted nuts. |
| Look up | |
| Mount up | Clear your debts. Letting your debts mount up means that interest will spiral, making the situation worse. |
| Sex up | The BBC admitted Dr David Kelly was the source for its claims that Downing Street sexed up an Iraqui weapons dossier. |
| Speed up | How much does the computer speed up your work? |
| Spice up | Here are some pointers to spice up your love life and, subsequently, your physical relationship! |
| Step up | The government has stepped up the pressure on tobacco companies. |
| Tart up | Tart up your phone with a new mobile phone cover. |
| Tighten up | Bosses want to tighten up the rules to protect staff from passive smoking. |
| Trade up |
| Use up | We used up all the eggs when we made
the cake.
|
| Give up |  My doctor tried to persuade me to give smoking
up. |
Up for approaching It
shows that sth is coming closer, staying close to sth or to some quality.
| Draw up | A taxi drew up just as we were thinking of calling one |
| Bump up against | |
| Catch up | |
| Catch up on | I've got a lot of work to catch up on. |
| Catch up with | She tried to catch up with the other competitors, but they were just too fast. |
Chat sb up |
You'd think by the time you got to Len's age you'd know how to chat up a woman. |
| Close up | |
| Come up | |
| Come up against | |
| Come up to | |
| Creep up on | |
| Cuddle up | |
| Draw up | A convoy of buses drew up at the airport and they all c She tried to catch up with the other competitors, but they were just too fast. limbed on board. |
| Even up | |
| Face up to | Sooner or later we have to face up to the fact that society cannot continue down the line of endless consumerism. |
| Form up | |
Go up |
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| Keep up | |
| Keep up with | You're walking too fast. I can't keep up with you. |
| Lead up to | |
| Level up |
| Be up | |
| Get up | She gets up at seven every morning. |
| Keep up | |
| Stay up | I'm preparing for my exams and I've been staying up late at night studying. |
| Wait up | I used to hate it when my parents waited up for me.Now, I'm the same way. I don't make it obvious, but I just can't get to sleep until my kids are home. |
Up with no
extra meaning I
| Open up | |
| Pass up | She passed up what seemed to be a golden opportunity. |
| Queue up | If you happen to be a Hollywood celebrity, chances are there'll be a host of magazines queuing up to pay for your wedding. |
Up for preparing,
starting, creating
| Bring up | |
| Book up | |
| Brew up | |
| Butter up | Even if he was just buttering her up, the compliment thrilled her. |
| Call up | |
| Come up | You'd better make sure you know these verbs because they always come up in the exam. |
| Come up with | I knew that it was impossible for me to come up with the money that was needed by Friday. |
| Conjure up | Old castles with their links to the past often conjure up pictures of ghosts and paranormal events. |
| Cook up | The high ranking officials of our district have been cooking up this plan for years without paying much regard to what teachers or even some administrators have been saying against the plan. |
| Crank up | |
| Crop up | Jodi has found herself cropping up in the gossip columns lately thanks to a budding romance with Westlifes Kian Egan. |
| Dish up | A new £14 million ITV channel - billed as having an up-to-date feel - was criticised by a broadcasting wachtdog yesterday for dishing up hours of repeats. |
| Drag up | Why do you keep dragging up the past? |
| Draw up | The Metropolitan Police force is drawing up plans to recruit more ethnic minority officers from overseas. |
| Dream up | |
| Feel up to | |
| Firm up | |
| Fit up | |
| Fix up | |
| Fry up | |
| Gear up | |
| Get up | |
| Go up | The Christmas lights go up in November and stay up until January 20th. |
| Heat up | |
| Kit up | |
| Knock up | |
| Light up | |
| Limber up | |
| Line up | |
| Make up | The story she told you wasn't true. She just made it up. |
| Move up | |
| Open up | |
| Patch up | |
| Perk up | |
| Pick up | |
| Pipe up | |
| Plan up | |
| Psych up | |
| Put up | |
| Rig up | |
| Rise up | |
| Run up | |
| Rustle up | |
| Saddle up | |
| Set up | |
| Shape up | |
| Soften up | |
| Start up | |
| Strike up | |
| Suck up to | |
| Sweeten up | |
| Take up | |
| Tee up | |
| Tense up | |
| Think up | |
| Throw up | |
| Tidy up | |
| Tog up | |
| Tool up | |
| Train up | |
| Tune up | |
| Warm up | |
| Whip up | |
| Wind up | |
| Work up |