English > move up: 2 senses > verb 2, motion| Meaning | Move upward. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s |
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| Synonyms | rise, lift, arise, go up, come up, uprise |
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| Caused by | lift, raise | Move upwards |
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| raise, lift, elevate, get up, bring up | Raise from a lower to a higher position |
| Entailed by | levitate, hover | Be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity |
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| top out, peak | To reach the highest point |
| Narrower | bubble | Rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles |
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| chandelle | climb suddenly and steeply |
| climb, climb up, mount, go up | go upward with gradual or continuous progress |
| go up | Be erected, built, or constructed |
| rise, come up, uprise, ascend | come up, of celestial bodies |
| rocket, skyrocket | Shoot up abruptly, like a rocket |
| scend, surge | Rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force such as a wave |
| soar, soar up, soar upwards, surge, zoom | Rise rapidly |
| steam | Rise as vapor |
| uplift | lift up from the earth, as by geologic forces |
| Broader | travel, go, move, locomote | change location |
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| Opposite | descend, fall, go down, come down | Move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way |
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| Spanish | ascender, elevarse, subir |
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| Catalan | aixecar-se, aixecar, alçar-se, alçar, ascendir, elevar-se, elevar, pujar |
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