go up phrasal verb ( see also ↑ go )
1 . INCREASE to increase in price, amount, level etc:
Train fares have gone up.
Blood-sugar levels go up as you digest food.
go up by 10%/250/£900 etc
Unemployment in the country has gone up by a million.
go up from something to something
Spending on research went up from $426 million to $461 million.
2 . BUILDING/SIGN if a building or sign goes up, it is built or fixed into place:
It was a lovely place before all these new houses went up.
3 . EXPLODE/BURN to explode, or be destroyed in a fire:
He had left the gas on and the whole kitchen went up.
The whole building went up in flames.
⇨ go up in smoke at ↑ smoke 1 (3)
4 . SHOUT if a shout or a ↑ cheer goes up, people start to shout or ↑ cheer
go up from
A great cheer went up from the audience.
5 . TO ANOTHER PLACE British English to go from one place to another, especially to a place that is further north, or to a town or city from a smaller place
go up to
We’re going up to Scotland next weekend.
He went up to the farm to get some eggs.
6 . LIGHTS if lights go up, they become brighter:
when the lights went up at the end of the performance
7 . UNIVERSITY British English formal old-fashioned to begin studying at a university, especially Oxford or Cambridge University