come up 'move upward' go down 'move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way' lift 'move upward' move up 'move upward' fall 'move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way' arise 'move upward' uprise 'move upward' surface 'come to the surface' go up 'travel up, "We ascended the mountain"' descend 'move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way' rise 'come to the surface' come down 'move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way' rise up 'come to the surface' rise 'move upward' go up 'move upward' ascend 'travel up, "We ascended the mountain"' come up 'come to the surface'
cut ascend set off flee approach emigrate advance recede climb file fall continue arrive leave get skedaddle tumble vacate enter depart escape decamp descend disembark pass go set out cross come retreat exit plunge emerge bolt rise return withdraw
drop 'COD: fall vertically. ' descend 'FN: to move downward due to a physical force such as gravity' rise 'FN: to move in an upward direction' topple 'COD: overbalance and fall.' plummet 'COD: fall or drop straight down at high speed.' dip 'FN: to proceed downwards due to a physical force' fall 'COD: move from a higher to a lower level, typically rapidly and without control' angle 'FN: to move at an angle (linear incline in comparison to some point)' slant 'FN: to lean in one direction' plunge 'COD: fall or move suddenly and uncontrollably. '
The smoke arose from the forest fire The barometer is falling The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope The temperature is going down The curtain fell on the diva The fog lifted The mist uprose from the meadows go up a ladder Her hand went up and then fell again
Examples from VerbNet
He came from France. He came through the door. He came from France to Colorado. The prisoners advanced. The convict escaped the prison. He came to Colorado. He entered the room. He climbed the mountain.
Examples from SemCor
Another said that her arm did not go_up at_first`` because I would n't let it; I thought it was n't supposed to''. The crawling men tried to rise and fell again. `` Please come_down as_soon_as you conveniently can'', the upright letters stalked from the broad nibbed pen,`` I have an important matter to discuss with you''. Through the splash of the rising waters, they could hear the roar of the river as it raged through its canyon, gnashing big chunks out of the banks. It was time to go_up myself''. `` My nephews will be coming_down'', she said that evening as Angelina brought her dinner into the dining_room, the whole meal on a vast linen covered tray. `` And Jesus, when he was baptized went_up straightway out of the water: and lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him''. When he had stored his stock in the great oak chest, locked the two big hasps and secured the additional chain, tied the fly of the tent, and picked_up the cash box, he moved_up the darkening street. The bridge itself rises up from the river, light-flared and enormous, like the outdoor set for an epic opera. I took another sidelong glance at the other registration card, then took the key to Unit 13 that she had given me and went_down long enough to park the car. When his arm came_up I ducked away but it caught me on the side of the neck, watering my eyes, and I backed_off to cough. Another struck him heavily in the thigh and he went_down. Once Todman thought he had spotted a tank and went_down to investigate while Greg covered him. Hoag descended the stone steps to the street and looked up at the building. When the algae began to build_up again, the effluent BOD rose. The clocks struck seven-thirty as they approached the hotel entrance; and hopes that the chambermaid and patronne would still be abed began to rise in Alex 's well exercised breast. He took several large swallows, recollected that Docherty had gone_up another flight, and decided he would be wise to cover himself by finding him. Start by falling forward to a point close to the feet, and, as strength improves, fall farther and farther out. As flexibility improves, the feet will move closer to the hands and the bridge rise higher. Just like the balloon would go_up and you could sit all day and wish it would spring a leak or blow to_hell up and burn and nothing like that would happen. Deegan fell into the dirt, the ball going over him. Yet everywhere sameness was stucco and wood in square_blocks- like fortresses perched against the slant of the hill, rising with the hill to the top where the church was and beyond that to the cemetery. `` The white colonnaded, cedar-roofed Southern mansion is directly traceable via the grey and buff stone of grey-skied England to the golden stucco of one particular part of the_blue South, the Palladian orbit stretching out from Vicenza: the old mind of Andrea_Palladio still smiles from behind many_an old rocking_chair on a Southern porch, the deep friezes of his architectonic music rise firm above the shallower freeze in the kitchen, his feeling for light and shade brings a glitter from a tall mint_julep, his sense of columns framing the warm velvet night has brought_together a_million couple of mating lips''. For_example, the importance of the Regulus_2,, a very promising aerodynamic ship to surface missile designed to be launched by surfaced submarines, was greatly diminished by the successful acceleration of the much more advanced Polaris ballistic_missile launched by submerged submarines. A plume of smoke rose from a Central_Vermont locomotive which idled behind a string of gravel cars, and little figures that were workmen labored to set the ruptured roadbed to rights. One Kohnstamm-positive subject who had both arms rise while being tested in the nai ^ ve condition described her subjective experience as_follows:`` You feel they 're going_up and you 're on a stage and it 's not right for them to do so and_then you think maybe that 's what 's supposed to happen''. They went_up onto a front_porch and into a small hallway where a dim bulb burned high in the ceiling. Greg went_up tight against the ceiling and led them back to their pass to home. It was then that they heard the tread of one descending and, in some perturbation glancing up, saw the patronne coming towards them as they gained the landing. We want to make sure that our junior colleagues realize that ideas are welcome, that initiative goes right down to the bottom and goes all_the_way to the top. Not fire until the bombs came_down! An old_man, sitting against the wall of a cottage and waiting for the sun to find him, gave her a more_than reflective look as she passed, the sap still plainly rising in his branches. The stairway on_the_right was dark, but there was a wall-switch at the bottom which lighted another dim bulb at the top, and they went_up. Still clutching the razor, Roberts came_up into a crouch, shaking his head. Despite his yearning, the colonel would not go_down to see the men come_through the lines. His mind closed on that prospect, as though fog had descended to blot_out a valley. Twice he nearly fell. Conchita kept_an_eye_on the twins and little Elena, trying to keep them from falling into the creek by which they persisted in playing. He thought_of Simms_Purdew, who once had risen at the edge of a cornfield, a maniacal scream on his lips, and swung a clubbed musket like a flail to beat down the swirl of bayonets about him. Yet if he were not there, they would have missed him, as they would have missed the sounds of bees buzzing against the screen_door in early June; or the smell of thick tomato_paste- the ripe smell that was both sweet and sour- rising_up from aluminum trays wrapped in fly dotted cheesecloth. These subjects implied that they too could prevent their arms from rising if they tried. In the cold dawn the mist swirled low to the ground, then rose with a gust of sudden wind to leave the valley clear. After baptism Jesus came_up out of the water at_once, and at that moment heaven opened; he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove to alight upon him''; A further regulation is that commands always go_down, unaccompanied by statements, and statements always go_up, unaccompanied by commands. Mark asked, and Abel lifted his eyes from the double lines in the middle of the road, the twin white ribbons which the car swallowed rapidly as it ascended the crest of the hill and came_down. We came_down off the wall as if he had toppled us, and we crouched behind it. Her eyebrows were definite and heavy and formed two lines moving upward toward a high forehead and a great head of brown hair that fell to her shoulders. When informed that there were some persons who did not have their arm go_up, she commented,`` I do n't see how they can prevent it''. A thoroughly ingratiating company it is, and when the final curtain falls you may suddenly realize that you have been sitting with a broad grin on your face all evening. The manager sat behind the group so he could see and count the hands that went_up, and the director wrote the numbers on the blackboard. He stalked into the water and fell heavily over the side of the flat-bottomed barge, his weight nearly swamping the craft. She was moving_up to the allowance department after winning a$ 10000 claiming event. Fall slowly forward onto the hands and let the body down to rest_on the floor. It was amazing how they had herded together for protection: an enormous matriarch in a quilted silk wrapper, rising from the breakfast_table; a gross boy in his teens, shuffling in from the kitchen with a sandwich in his hands; a girl in her twenties, fat and sullen, descending the marble staircase; then all four gathering on the sofa to face the inquisitor. It will rise during lapse conditions. In this process the Minoan Mycenaean inheritance had been transmuted or finally rejected; the Aegean world which had existed before 1000 differed from that which rises more clearly in our vision after 800. From the terraces- eighteen in_all- broad flights_of_steps descend into the water or onto still more terraces barely above the level of the river. After a`` busy'' overture, the curtain rises on a farm scene- the Ranavan_Valley in northern Maine. He grabbed her by the shoulders and went_down on one knee, taking her weight so that some of the wind was driven out of him. When that monk came_down and approached him with a respectful salutation, he asked: Look, old_man, you can go_up. A further regulation is that commands always go_down, unaccompanied by statements, and statements always go_up, unaccompanied by commands. An old weakness for burrowing in records rose_up to tempt him. Moon-faced Ludwig_Erhart, the economic_expert, probably will ascend to the leadership long denied him. You then descended one story, glommed a television_set from the music room- the only constructive feature of your visit, by_the_way- and, returning to the ground_floor, entered the master_bedroom. I decided I hated the Pedersen kid too, dying in our kitchen while I was away where I could watch, dying just to entertain Hans and making me go_up snapping steps and down a drafty hall, Pa lumped under the covers at the end like dung covered with snow, snoring and whistling. But just when she seemed to have sunk into some depravity of peasanthood she would disappear and come_down bathed, brushed, and taking_breaths of air, and even with her broken nails her hands would come to rest on a table or a leaf with a thoughtless delicacy, a grace of history, so_to_speak, and for an instant one saw how ferociously proud she was and adamant on certain questions of personal value. He showered, shaved, dressed and went_down to the dining_room for breakfast. But for the start of the Santa_Cruz run, the whip fell. He thought_of Simms_Purdew rising_up, fearless in glory. She was carrying a quirt, and she started to raise it, then let it fall again and dangle from her wrist. The savage barbarian hordes of red Russian_Communism descended on the Athens that was mighty Metronome, sacking and despoiling with their Bolshevistic battle cry of`` Soak the rich'! These cells were thawed at 37` C for 30 min and were deglycerolized by alternately centrifuging and mixing with descending concentrations of glycerol solutions( 20, 18, 10, 8, 4 and 2%). We were not, however, prepared_for anything like the apparition that confronted us as Felix came_up the stairs. Then he went_on to the Cheyennes and told them that the Sioux was goin' to move_up. I saw the pony fall like a stone and the young warrior flew over its head, bouncing like a rubber ball. The Kohnstamm-positive subjects described the vivid experience of having their arms rise as one in_which they exercised no control. He saw the ground coming_up- and the stranger 's head. Rank after rank of them came_down the road, and the faces were all the same, and they walked in a sea of dust. With a 15- to-one engine, a supersonic aircraft weighing 300000 pounds could rise vertically. My Cousin_Simmons carried a musket, but he had loaded it with bird_shot, and as the officer came opposite him, he rose_up behind the wall and fired. Moreover, when the experimenter did inform those subjects that there were some normal people who did not have their arm rise once they relaxed, the Kohnstamm-positive subjects were uninfluenced in their subsequent reactions to the Kohnstamm situation. When his head came_down, Curt grabbed him by the hair and catapulted him head first into the wall. Both fell heavily to the ground. She had felt that her arm wanted to go_up in the first trial, but had consciously prevented it from so doing. When he turned into the highway that led to the outskirts of the city and then rose toward home, he had to pull over to the curb and wait for a_few minutes, sucking_in air and squinting and blinking his eyes to clear them of tears. Gazing at her husband 's drugged body, his chest rising and falling in mindless rhythms, she saw the grandeur of his fictional world, that lush garden from which he plucked flowers and herbs. The dangerous current upon the prairie ceased, but the water stood and kept_on rising. `` And Jesus, when he was baptized went_up straightway out of the water: and lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him''. I waved with discretion and moderation to the vague golden faces fading through rising dust and the distortions of the back window glass. After baptism Jesus came_up out of the water at_once, and at that moment heaven opened; he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove to alight upon him''; One subject spontaneously asked( after her arm had finally risen),`` Do you suppose I was unconsciously keeping it down before''? When East_Germans fled to the West by the thousands, paeans of joy rose from the throats of Western publicists. Then they went_down to Black_Bottom. As it descends, the concentration of radioactivity builds_up in the human_body; for a dose of radiation is not like a flu virus which causes temporary discomfort and_then dies. Times_Square, when I ascended to_it with my subway travellers( all dressed as if for a huge wedding in a family of which we were all distant members), was nearly impassable, the sidewalks celebrants, with bundled_up sailors and soldiers already hugging their girls and their rationed bottles of whiskey. Gazing at her husband 's drugged body, his chest rising and falling in mindless rhythms, she saw the grandeur of his fictional world, that lush garden from which he plucked flowers and herbs. Katie reared a third time, then, trembling, descended. Martha_Schuyler, old, slow, careful of foot, came_down the great staircase, dressed in her best lace-drawn black silk, her jeweled shoe buckles held forward. Jess stared at him without answering and let his hands fall to his sides. Then he slipped and went_down on his hands and knees in the melting snow. Until Moscow resumed nuclear testing last September 1, the US and UK had released more_than twice_as much radiation into the atmosphere as the Russians, and the fallout from the earlier blasts is still coming_down. Finally she had come_down; Winston had heard her shaking out the skirt of her new pink silk hostess gown. Mark asked, and Abel lifted his eyes from the double lines in the middle of the road, the twin white ribbons which the car swallowed rapidly as it ascended the crest of the hill and came_down. When the knife went_into his chest, he went_down at_once. Such liquids will rise to a considerable height above the surface around the chamber before they will flow_out of the chamber. If it comes_down too hard on the potential dangers of fallout, it will box the President on resuming atmospheric tests. With the spring rains the flow rose rapidly infiltration in open sewers. She came_down against him, and he tried to break her fall. Autosuggestibility, the reaction of the subject in_such_a_way as to conform_to his own expectations of the outcome( i. e., that the arm-rise is a reaction to the pressure exerted in the voluntary contraction, because of his knowledge that`` to every reaction there is an equal and opposite reaction'') also seems inadequate as an explanation for the following reasons:( 1) the subjects' apparently genuine experience of surprise when their arms rose, and( 2) manifestations of the phenomenon despite anticipations of something else happening( e._g., of becoming dizzy and maybe falling, an expectation spontaneously volunteered by one of the subjects). The figure leapt from the box, almost lost its balance, the flag draped there tore in the air, the figure landed on its left leg, fell on its hands, and pressed itself up. Linda_Kay felt_like going_off to the bedroom to cry; but they were going_up to the Big_House after supper, and she had_to put_on a clean dress and fix her hair a_little. Turbulent tides rose as_much_as fifty feet. Early in November the clouds lifted enough to carry_out the assigned missions. The smoke from that chimney rose as sluggishly as smoke from any other, and hung as sadly in the drizzle, creeping back_down along the canvas of the roof.