go up

verb goes up · going up · went up · gone up

1. intransitive To move upwards.
2. intransitive To be built or erected. There are new offices going up in town.
3. intransitive To rise or increase in price, cost, or value. Bananas have gone up because of a shortage.
4. intransitive To be consumed by fire. The building went up in smoke. Once the fire got out of the basement, the building went up in minutes.
5. intransitive To forget lines or blocks during public performance. The producer hopes nobody goes up opening night.
6. UK, dated, intransitive To attend university.
7. intransitive To be imprisoned. He went up in the spring.
8. To appeal for a dismissal.
9. intransitive To go bankrupt; to be ruined.
10. intransitive To break down; to stop working.
11. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, up.