GETS UP Synonyms: 97 Similar and Opposite Words

gets up

verb

present tense third-person singular of get up

as in rolls out

to leave one's bed you need to get right up when the alarm goes off in the morning

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as in clothes

to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes all got up in her Sunday best

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as in summons

to call into being through the use of one's inner resources or powers I'm still trying to get up the energy to reply

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Recent Examples of gets up But even with Garland’s exit, the show is well worth watching to see what Lorenzo Alessi gets up to next. — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 30 June 2026 This is a nice boost from gas-only SUVs — the regular Forester gets up to 29 mpg, for example. — ABC News, 24 June 2026 That woman falls backward and the attacker gets up and approaches her before the video cuts out. — Jazmin Alvarado, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2026 Love gets up and can be heard yelling. — Joseph States, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2026 My wife gets up, brings another beer from the kitchen, and sets it in front of him. — Literary Hub, 11 June 2026 Muirbrook, 43, gets up to some of the same antics in the real retirement homes as Angela (Larter) and Ainsley (Randolph) do onscreen. — Julia Moore, PEOPLE, 9 June 2026 Garance falls down, gets up, falls again, and again, but then finally one more time. — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 17 May 2026 Audio clips of Lions doubters play in the background while Dan Campbell gets up from his desk to post the Lions schedule on the bulletin board. — Jayna Bardahl, New York Times, 15 May 2026

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Flexibility is also a raison d’être for the Shed, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Rockwell Associates, though the most visible transformation is the quilted canopy that rolls out to cover the plaza out front.

— Justin Davidson, Curbed, 29 July 2026
As Google rolls out the technology to other firms, watermarks are quickly becoming fragmented.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 29 July 2026

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Regardless, men behaving in a repulsed or shocked way when a man dresses feminine or in women’s clothing is homophobic.

— Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 22 July 2026
Case in point, the Organic Cotton Relaxed Oxford Shirt, which stylist Nicole Chavez, who dresses Witherspoon, handpicked in her cool-girl summer capsule.

— Olivia Cigliano, InStyle, 20 July 2026

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But when researchers look closely at the friendships that actually make it from young adulthood into midlife and beyond, longevity turns out to be less about the past and more about a couple of ongoing, almost unglamorous behaviors.

— Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
But what happens when the CEO of a platform for ticket resellers turns out to be one himself?

— Diane Brady, Fortune, 27 July 2026