keep sb up
— phrasal verb with keep uk/kiːp/us/kiːp/verb kept, kept
to prevent someone from going to bed or sleeping:
He keeps yawning - I hope we're not keeping him up.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Animal physiology: not sleeping & not unconscious
- awoke
- be in the land of the living idiom
- come round
- conscious
- consciousness
- knock
- land
- morning person
- not sleep a wink idiom
- rise and shine! idiom
- rouse
- sit up
- stay
- stir
- toss
- wait
- wait up
- wake (sb) up
- waking
- woken
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