to sit up
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1.0
- phrasal verb
- /sɪt ʌp/
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incorporarse
- He could barely sit up in bed after the long surgery but was determined to try.
- sit up straight
- sit up in bed
- sit up in a chair
It's like, can you sit up once today?
- It's like, can you sit up once today?
- We sat, me, Dingo and Andrew sat up on these rocks.
- I had to be sitting up because I couldn't breathe laying down.
- I start to sit up and the corner is like no, lay back down.
- Like I mean, when I used to sit up in the mountains and just feel totally elevated.
- It was just wake up, physio, have breakfast, sit up.
- She's laying in the bed and she's sitting up a little bit and there's a bed beside Diana.
- Don't lie down her stay sat up straight otherwise you will fall asleep.
Examples
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You're going to sit up a little bit.
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Let me see if I can sit up and show you guys.
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I start to sit up and the corner is like no, lay back down.
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Do you want to sit up here, folks?
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You sit up and you stay!
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OK, OK, OK, so sit up straight shoulders, relax.
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In fact, I'm going to sit up, get the pillow in place.
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Your Honor, he can't even sit up.
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His glance finds Leonard, who is sitting up in his bed, smiling.
Fiction book (1990) -
Hank, wearing a back brace, sits up in bed reading a "Vault of Horror" comic.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
15
1.6
Sit or stand so your back and shoulders are straight
Antonyms
How Upright
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to move from a lying or leaning position to an upright sitting position' is directly and transparently composed from 'sit' (to be seated) and 'up' (toward a higher position). This verb+particle motion/resultative pattern is common in English and cross‑linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The verb sit up shows the physical move from lying down to a sitting position, like a baby learning to sit up or a person who wakes and sits up in bed. So sit up means 'move to a sitting position'.