stay out
— phrasal verb with stay /steɪ/ verbDefinition
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B2 to not come home at night, or to go home late: Our cat usually stays out at night. My mum won't let me stay out late.Not sleeping and not unconscious
(Definition of stay out from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- awaken verb
- awoke verb
- awoken verb
- come round phrasal verb (BECOME CONSCIOUS)
- consciousness noun (AWAKE)
- get (sb) up phrasal verb
- rise and shine! idiom
- rise verb (MOVE UP)
- riser noun (PERSON)
- rouse verb
- sit up phrasal verb (STAY AWAKE)
- stir verb (MOVE)
- toss verb (MOVE)
- wait up phrasal verb
- wake (sb) up phrasal verb (STOP SLEEPING)
- wakeful adjective
- waken verb
- wakey-wakey exclamation
- waking adjective
- waking noun
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