get up

If you do this, you leave your bed after sleeping, usually to start your day.

• I get up early.
• She got up at eight today.
• What time do you usually get up?

How to use it: get up at + time (I get up at half past six.)

Similar words: rise

Common phrases: get up early, get up late, get up at seven

If you do this, you reach a higher place by climbing or moving upwards.

• Can you get up that hill?
• The cat got up onto the roof.
• We could not get up the icy steps.

How to use it: get up something (We struggled to get up the steep hill.); get up to somewhere (How did the cat get up to the roof?)

Similar words: climb, ascend

Opposites: descend

Common phrases: get up the hill, get up a ladder, get up the stairs

If you do this, you leave your bed after sleeping, usually to start your day.

• We get up at six.
• I got up late on Sunday.
• Do you find it hard to get up in winter?

How to use it: get up at + time (On weekdays, we get up at seven.)

Similar words: rise

Common phrases: get up early, get up late, get up at six

If you do this, you move from sitting to standing.

• Please get up and stretch.
• He got up from his chair.
• Can you help Grandma get up from the sofa?

How to use it: get up from something (She got up from her chair to answer the door.)

Similar words: stand up, rise

Opposites: sit down

Common phrases: get up slowly, get up from sitting, get up and stretch