sit up with in English

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{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sits up with",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sitting up with",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sat up with",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sat up with",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "<,,sat>",
        "head": "sit up with"
      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "To stay awake past one's usual time in order to care for or provide company to (someone)."
      ],
      "id": "en-sit_up_with-en-verb-H9SL54K8",
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        ],
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          "usual",
          "usual"
        ],
        [
          "in order to",
          "in order to"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To remain with (someone) through the night, especially with an ill or troubled person."
      ],
      "id": "en-sit_up_with-en-verb-4GK3cHI1",
      "links": [
        [
          "ill",
          "ill"
        ],
        [
          "troubled",
          "troubled"
        ],
        [
          "person",
          "person"
        ]
      ]
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To remain with (a recently deceased person) all night, ostensibly to keep animals from the corpse."
      ],
      "id": "en-sit_up_with-en-verb-imMHwmOh"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sit up with"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs formed with \"up\"",
    "English phrasal verbs formed with \"with\"",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sits up with",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sitting up with",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sat up with",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sat up with",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "<,,sat>",
        "head": "sit up with"
      },
      "expansion": "sit up with (third-person singular simple present sits up with, present participle sitting up with, simple past and past participle sat up with)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To stay awake past one's usual time in order to care for or provide company to (someone)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "awake",
          "awake"
        ],
        [
          "usual",
          "usual"
        ],
        [
          "in order to",
          "in order to"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To remain with (someone) through the night, especially with an ill or troubled person."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ill",
          "ill"
        ],
        [
          "troubled",
          "troubled"
        ],
        [
          "person",
          "person"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To remain with (a recently deceased person) all night, ostensibly to keep animals from the corpse."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sit up with"
}

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"sit up with" meaning in English

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