Contract
Contract verb - To become affected with (a disease or disorder).
Go up
Go up verb - Move upward.
Both terms in one sentence
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In of the Alex Rider novels, a contract killer kills his target by sabotaging his elevator, causing it to go up one floor higher than it normally would and then leaving a sophisticated hologram of the elevator in it's place, causing the target to step into the empty shaft and fall to his death.
Source: Elevator Failure
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Go up and Contract. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/contract/go_up
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