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sits up with

sits up with is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sit up with.

Meaning of sit up with

Verb

sit up with (third-person singular simple present sits up with, present participle sitting up with, simple past and past participle sat up with)

  1. To stay awake past one's usual time in order to care for or provide company to (someone).
  2. To remain with (someone) through the night, especially with an ill or troubled person.
  3. To remain with (a recently deceased person) all night, ostensibly to keep animals from the corpse.

Questions about sits up with

What is sits up with the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Sits up with is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sit up with.

Words near sits up with in the dictionary

  1. sits through
  2. sits tight
  3. sits under
  4. sits up
  5. sits up and takes notice
  6. sits up with
  7. sits upon
  8. sits vac
  9. sits with
  10. sitski
  11. sitskied

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sits up with (page history and authors); sit up with (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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