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keep someone up at night

keep someone up at night verb: to worry, to disturb, to give someone sleepless nights.

Verb

keep someone up at night (third-person singular simple present keeps someone up at night, present participle keeping someone up at night, simple past and past participle kept someone up at night)

  1. (figuratively, informal) To worry, to disturb, to give someone sleepless nights.
    • Reporter: You share this border, more than eight hundred miles, with Vladimir Putin. What keeps you up at night?
      Niinisto: Nothing keeps me up at night. But in the daytime we... like I have said, we are not afraid, but we are fully awake.2023 March 9, Sauli Niinisto, 9:23 from the start, in Finland's President Sees No Reason to Talk to Putin, Bloomberg, archived from the original on 09 Mar 2023

keep someone up at night meaning in Arabic

keep someone up at night in Arabic

Translations
أقضّ المضجع

Forms of keep someone up at night

third-person singular presentkeeps someone up at night
present participlekeeping someone up at night
past participlekept someone up at night
pastkept someone up at night

Questions about keep someone up at night

What does keep someone up at night mean?
Keep someone up at night means to worry, to disturb, to give someone sleepless nights.
What is keep someone up at night in Arabic?
Keep someone up at night in Arabic is أقضّ المضجع. See Keep someone up at night meaning in Arabic.
What part of speech is keep someone up at night?
Keep someone up at night is a verb.
What is the past tense of keep someone up at night?
The past tense of keep someone up at night is kept someone up at night.

Words near keep someone up at night in the dictionary

  1. keep someone on ice
  2. keep someone on their toes
  3. keep someone posted
  4. keep someone posted up
  5. keep someone sweet
  6. keep someone up at night
  7. keep someone up late
  8. keep soul and body together
  9. keep straight
  10. keep stumm
  11. keep tabs on

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