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Definition of Sit up

1. Verb. Not go to bed. "We sat up all night to watch the election"

2. Verb. Change to an upright sitting position. "He sat up in bed"

Definition of Sit up

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of sit-up); (alternative spelling of situp) ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive) To assume a sitting position from a position lying down. ¹

3. Verb. (intransitive) To sit erect. ¹

4. Verb. (intransitive) To show interest or surprise. ¹

5. Verb. To rise. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sit Up

sit back sit by sit dead-red sit down sit in sit in for sit in on sit on sit on it sit on one's hands

sit on the fence sit out sit still sit through sit tight sit up (current term) sit ups sitagliptin sitar sitar player

sitarist sitarists sitarlike sitars sitatunga sitatungas sitch sitcom sitcomedian sitcomedians

Literary usage of Sit up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Kim by Rudyard Kipling (1905)
"sit up and listen, child of my soul ! My tale was toll Said he to me, " Chela, know this. There are many lies in the world, and not a few liars, ..."

2. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1886)
"The first real lesson was when I undertook to make him sit up. ... Then I put him into a corner and set him up, saying continually, " sit up! sit up! ..."

3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1845)
"No, it 's no use your talking, Caudle ; I never will let the girl sit up for you, ... Why does she sit up with me then? That 's quite a different matter ..."

4. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"They are glad, rather than tit tut, to play very small game, and to make use of arguments, such as will not prove a bare inexpediency. ao. To SIT up. ..."

5. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1901)
"When Mary first began to sit up she would stiffen her neck and then her back ... Helen tried to sit up by first taking hold of the side of the crib and then ..."

6. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine (1816)
"How came you to sit up so late that night ? —Mr. Lyon came to our bouse, as nigh м I can guess, between nine and ten, (which is generally about the time we ..."

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