Meaning & use
up
Toward or in a higher position, place, or level.
See it in a sentence
He climbed up the ladder to fix the broken gutter.
Prices for fuel have gone up sharply over the past few months.
A note on using this word
Up combines with many verbs to form phrasal verbs, such as give up, wake up, and speak up, each with its own meaning.
Words with a similar meaning
upwardaloft
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Words with an opposite meaning
Another way to use it
2. adjective
Functioning correctly or in an active, operational state, especially describing a computer system.
The website was back up within an hour of the outage.
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