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gets up

verb , present tense third-person singular of get up

Synonyms and Antonyms of gets up

1 to leave one's bed

you need to get right up when the alarm goes off in the morning

Synonyms of gets up

arises, rises, rolls out, turns out, uprises

Words Related to gets up

arouses, awakens, awakes, bestirs, stirs, wakes

Near Antonyms of gets up

catnaps, dozes, drops off, lies up, naps, nods, rests, sleeps, slumbers, snoozes

bunks, perches, roosts, settles

couches, dosses (down) [chiefly British], flops (down), lies (down), reclines

Antonyms of gets up

beds (down), retires, turns in

2 to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes

all got up in her Sunday best

Synonyms of gets up

apparels, arrays, attires, bedecks, caparisons, clothes, costumes, decks (out), does up, dresses, dresses up, enrobes, garbs, garments, gowns, habits, invests, rigs (out), robes, suits, togs (up or out), toilets, vestures

Words Related to gets up

cloaks, frocks, jackets, mantles, vests

drapes, enswathes, haps [dialect], huddles, swaddles, swathes, wraps

accoutres (or accouters), bedights [archaic], equips, furnishes, habilitates, outfits, tailors, uniforms

dresses down, underdresses

Near Antonyms of gets up

denudes, divests, uncovers, undrapes, unveils

Antonyms of gets up

disarrays, disrobes, strips, unclothes, undresses, untrusses [archaic]

3 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

Synonyms of gets up

conjures (up), gathers, summons

Words Related to gets up

educes, elicits, evokes, raises

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