Definition of Up

Verb

• raise
  "up the ante"
  

Adjective

• used up
  "time is up"
  
• (used of computers) operating properly
  "how soon will the computers be up?"
  
• open
  "the windows are up"
  
• (usually followed by `on' or `for') in readiness
  "he was up on his homework"
  "had to be up for the game"
  
• extending or moving toward a higher place
  "the up staircase"
  "a general upward movement of fish"
  upward
• getting higher or more vigorous
  "its an up market"
  "an improving economy"
  improving
• out of bed
  "are they astir yet?"
  "up by seven each morning"
  astir
• being or moving higher in position or greater in some value
  being above a former position or level
  "the anchor is up"
  "the sun is up"
  "he lay face up"
  "he is up by a pawn"
  "the market is up"
  "the corn is up"
  

Adverb

• to a later time
  "they moved the meeting date up"
  "from childhood upward"
  upwards upward
• to a more central or a more northerly place
  "was transferred up to headquarters"
  "up to Canada for a vacation"
  
• nearer to the speaker
  "he walked up and grabbed my lapels"
  
• to a higher intensity
  "he turned up the volume"
  
• spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position
  "look up!"
  "the music surged up"
  "the fragments flew upwards"
  "prices soared upwards"
  "upwardly mobile"
  upwards upward upwardly

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Unscramble up

1 unscramble word found using the letters up.

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