go up

verb

went up; gone up; going up; goes up

intransitive verb

1

: to be built or erected

a new sign went up

2

chiefly British : to attend a university

3

of an actor : to become confused

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

Likewise, Paramount, unlike Netflix and Comcast, looks to control all of WBD, instead of just its streaming and studios business, which was originally set to be spun off from WBD’s declining cable assets and led by Zaslav before the company went up for sale. —Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 4 Dec. 2025

While there aren’t comprehensive statistics on the number of cameras in the country, estimates go up to 600 million cameras across China, according to the report. —Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 4 Dec. 2025

Pew’s figure—65 percent exhausted—appears to have held remarkably steady even as the temperature goes up. —Newsweek Editors, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2025

As of Wednesday morning, the cheapest tickets available on TicketMaster were in the $320 range in the upper corner and endline sections, going up to more than $1,500 for premium lower bowl seats and up to $3,000 for front row seats in the 21,000-seat Fort Lauderdale stadium. —Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 3 Dec. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2

Rhymes for go up

• backup
• blowup
• breakup
• buildup
• checkup
• cleanup
• holdup
• hookup
• lineup
• lockup
• makeup
• markup