Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary - 4th Edition
get up (STAND) — phrasal verb with get / ɡet / verb ( present participle getting , past tense got , past participle got or US gotten )
B2 to stand up:
The whole audience got up and started clapping.
get up UK (GROW STRONG) — phrasal verb with get / ɡet / verb ( present participle getting , past tense got , past participle got or US gotten )
If the wind gets up, it starts to grow stronger:
The wind is getting up.
get (sb) up — phrasal verb with get / ɡet / verb ( present participle getting , past tense got , past participle got or US gotten )
get (sb) up
A1 to wake up and get out of bed, or to tell or help someone to do this:
I got up at five o'clock this morning!
It's dreadful trying to get the kids up on school days.
get sth up — phrasal verb with get / ɡet / verb ( present participle getting , past tense got , past participle got or US gotten )
UK to organize a group of people to do something:
He's getting up a small group to go carol-singing for charity.
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