shoot up

Verb

Meaning

rise dramatically

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

mount bloom increase burgeon spread develop rise spring grow advance expand rocket jump shoot boom

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Antonyms

fall decline decrease collapse fail sink

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Hypernyms

increase

Examples

I try to keep it positive and play it cool, shoot up the playground and tell the kids to stay in school. Eminem

Is it with us a compensatory fact that, being more stupid in the mass, we shoot up higher, when we do shoot up, in dazzling concentrations of intellectual power and so produce what we describe as "genius"? For "genius" is with us an individual thing. Whereas all Jews are little geniuses. Wyndham Lewis

I have the most perfect belly button. When I stick my fingers in it, I feel a nerve in the center of my body shoot up my spine. Madonna (entertainer)

Never shoot up in the air when you're standing under it. Woody Allen

The message is clear to other disturbed kids around the country: If I shoot up my school, I can be famous. Roger Ebert

Now days battles are just sort of a "You shoot up my town and I'll shoot up yours." Harry S. Truman

Close letter words and terms

shoot through shoot through like a Bondi tram shoot trouble shoot wrestling shoot your mouth off shoot yourself