Up & Down

Up & Down

1. Movement

   • UP
     • Curled up
     • Sit up
       • to move your body to a sitting position after you have been lying down
     • Move up
       • Reach
   • DOWN
     • Lie down
       • to move into a position in which your body is flat, usually in order to sleep or rest
     • Sit down
       • to sit in a chair
     • Look down
       • to gaze downly

2. Start/End

   • UP
     • Set up
       • to establish
     • Fire up
       • to fire sth
     • Boot up
       • When a computer boots (up), it becomes ready for use by getting the necessary information into its memory
   • DOWN
     • Shut down
       • it stops operating either temporarily or permanently
     • Break down
       • if a system, relationship, or discussion breaks down, it fails because there is a problem or disagreement
     • Stand down
       • to give up your official job or position

3. Better/Worse

   • DOWN
     • Dress down
       • dress informally.
     • Dumb down
       • to make something simpler and easier for people to understand, especially in order to make it more popular
   • UP
     • Trade up
       • to buy something that is of higher value than the one you already have:
     • Dress up
       • to put on formal clothes for a special occasion

4. Increase/Decrease

   • UP
     • Speed up
       • an increase in the rate of change or growth
     • Save up
       • to keep money so that you can buy something with it in the future
     • Turn up
       • a better opportunity to do something becomes available unexpectedly.
   • DOWN
     • Quiet down
       • to become less noisy or less active
     • Cut down
       • to do or use less of something
     • Slow down
       • to be less active and relax more

5. Completion

   • UP
     • Wind up
       • to find yourself in an unexpected and usually unpleasant situation, especially as a result of what you do
     • Buy up
       • to buy all of something or as much of it as you can get, especially if it is cheap
     • Use up
       • to finish a supply of something
   • DOWN
     • Pin sb down
       • to stop someone from escaping by surrounding and shooting at them if they try to escape
     • Live down smt
       • to make people forget that you made a big mistake or did something very embarrassing in the past
     • Settle down
       • to become familiar with a place and to feel happy and confident in it

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