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phrasal verb [intransitive]

present tense
I/you/we/they	go up
he/she/it	goes up
present participle	going up
past tense	went up
past participle	gone up

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go up in smoke

1
to increase
We’d like to see the baby’s weight going steadily up.
The price of oil has gone up by over 50 percent in less than a year.
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2
to be built
A new office building is going up on State Street.
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3
if something such as a notice or sign goes up somewhere, it is put in a place where people can see it
Posters for the show are going up all over town.
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4
to start burning quickly or explode
The whole building went up in just a few minutes.
go up in flames:
From the air, it looked as if the entire city was going up in flames.
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5
to travel toward the north
Max goes up to Canada to fish every summer.
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1. a.
  British to travel to a place that is larger or more important than the place that you are leaving
  Let’s go up to London next week.
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6
if a noise goes up from a group of people, they all start to make it
go up from:
A cheer went up from the crowd.
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7
to be long or tall enough to reach a particular higher point or level
go up to:
The fire escape went up only to the second floor.
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8
if lights go up, especially in a theater, they are switched on and gradually become brighter
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9
if the curtain goes up in a theater, it is raised or opened at the beginning of a performance
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10
British to go to a university, especially Oxford or Cambridge, at the beginning of a term (=period of study) or a course of study
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11
British to move to a higher division in a sports league (=a group of teams)
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