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sitting up with

sitting up with is the present participle and gerund 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 sitting up with

What is sitting up with the present participle and gerund of?
Sitting up with is the present participle and gerund of sit up with.

Words near sitting up with in the dictionary

  1. sitting toilet
  2. sitting toilets
  3. sitting under
  4. sitting up
  5. sitting up and taking notice
  6. sitting up with
  7. sitting upon
  8. sitting volleyball
  9. sitting with
  10. sitting-out area
  11. sitting-out areas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sitting 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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