gone up

Increased in level

Gone up indicates upward movement or increase.

Prices have gone up, buildings have gone up, and someone who has gone up in the world has achieved higher status.

In British usage, students go up to university—especially Oxford or Cambridge—when they begin their studies there.

Related

hike · climb · ascend · lifted · prices · cost of living · spike · grow · soar · amplify · mounted · inflate · surge · advance · temperature · blood pressure · elevated · balloon

Opposites
vertical movement

gone upgone down

Moved downward, decreased

descended · come down · dropped · fallen · sunk

quantitative change

gone upgone down

Moved downward, decreased

decreased · fallen · dropped · declined · diminished

state change

gone upstayed put

Continued in place

plateaued · stagnated · flatlined

Family

go, up, gone, going, upright, upon, update, uplift, upgrade

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