"stay up" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: stays up [present, singular, third-person], staying up [participle, present], stayed up [participle, past], stayed up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} stay up (third-person singular simple present stays up, present participle staying up, simple past and past participle stayed up)
  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stay, up. Derived forms: stay up late
    Sense id: en-stay_up-en-verb-bT06mbfE
  2. (intransitive) To remain awake, to not go to bed. Tags: intransitive Categories (topical): Sleep Translations (remain awake): سَهَر (sahar) [Egyptian-Arabic] (Arabic), 熬夜 (áoyè) (Chinese Mandarin), opblijven (Dutch), valvoa (Finnish), aufbleiben (German), durchmachen (German), valvoa (Ingrian), 새우다 (sae'uda) (Korean), czuwać [imperfective] (Polish), quedarse despierto (Spanish), empalmar (Spanish), reenganchar (Spanish), eistedd i fyny (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-stay_up-en-verb-rA6nKeO9 Disambiguation of Sleep: 0 73 27 Categories (other): English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English phrasal verbs with particle (up), English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 20 60 20 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (up): 28 49 23 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 13 73 14 Disambiguation of 'remain awake': 3 95 2
  3. (intransitive, euphemistic) To maintain an erection. Tags: euphemistic, intransitive Translations (maintain an erection): 勃起 (bóqǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), ylläpitää erektiota (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-stay_up-en-verb-HsBi0b5x Categories (other): English euphemisms Disambiguation of 'maintain an erection': 0 5 95

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for stay up meaning in English (4.1kB)

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      "sense": "remain awake",
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      "sense": "remain awake",
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      "sense": "remain awake",
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      "word": "勃起"
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