0 past simple and past participle of up informal
By allowing the use of documents that had been produced in civil revenue collection proceedings as evidence in subsequent criminal prosecutions, however, the 1874 statute had upped the legal ante.
Her doctor upped her iron tablets, but that did not work.
The offer price was then suddenly upped by a matter of £2,000.
The rigs upped and went and moved south of the border, and new development came practically to a halt.
Does he dispute the arithmetic, logic or politics of the royal commission's recommendation that that increase should be upped to 9 per cent?
Over the years we have constantly upped the pyramid of sentencing.
It has now upped that contribution to£14 million.
But then the first one "upped" this and said it was going up by 10p.
