English-Portuguese translations for get up

• levantar
  Temos de nos levantar um pouco mais cedo, tal como nos aconselhou o presidente Clinton.We must get up a little bit earlier, as President Clinton has advised us.
  Não podemos repetir os acontecimentos de Malta, quando fomos obrigados a levantar-nos sem dispor sequer de um comunicado final.We cannot have a repetition of what happened at Malta, where we had to get up from the table without even making a final statement.
  Se amanhã há uma cimeira, eles deveriam levantar-se cedo ou organizar as coisas de outro modo; porém, é aqui o lugar onde deveriam estar hoje. If there is a Summit tomorrow, they should get up early or arrange things in some other way; but where they should be today is here.
• crescer
• pôr-se de pé
• subir
  Como os visitantes não podem subir, estão a usar os elevadores para descer para o andar -2 e subir depois novamente.Because visitors cannot get up they are using the lifts to go down to -2 and then back up again.
  A razão porque o hemiciclo está tão vazio neste momento é porque mais de 200 deputados estão a tentar subir nos elevadores.The reason this House is so empty just now is because there are over 200 Members trying to get up in the lifts.

Definition of get up

• To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb
• To rise from one's bed (often implying to wake up
• To move from a sitting or lying position to a standing position; to stand up
• To materialise; to grow stronger
• To bring together; to amass
• To gather or grow larger by accretion
• To go towards the attacking goal
• To criticise
• To annoy
• To dress in a certain way, especially extravagantly

Examples

• The tired horse eventually got up and over the hurdle
• Im having difficulty getting up the stairs
• I didnt get up until midday
• Get up off the couch and clean this mess!
• As dusk fell a storm got up
• The general got up a large body of men
• The locomotive got up a good head of steam
• I could see that he was getting up a temper
• He got up me about the mess I made in the kitchen
• She was all got up in the most ridiculous frilly dress

Related words

• vegetable soup
• target group
• get up on the wrong side of the bed
• get up to
• if you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas
• get a leg up
• get the wind up
• get it up
• get one's hopes up