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keeping someone up at night

keeping someone up at night is the present participle and gerund of keep someone up at night.

Meaning of keep someone up at night

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

Questions about keeping someone up at night

What is keeping someone up at night the present participle and gerund of?
Keeping someone up at night is the present participle and gerund of keep someone up at night.

Words near keeping someone up at night in the dictionary

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

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