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kept someone up at night

kept someone up at night is the simple past and past participle 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 kept someone up at night

What is kept someone up at night the simple past and past participle of?
Kept someone up at night is the simple past and past participle of keep someone up at night.

Words near kept someone up at night in the dictionary

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

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