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stand sb up

Phrasal Verb with stand
 
 
/stænd/ verb (past tense and past participle stood)

Definition

to fail to meet someone when you said you would: He's stood me up twice now.
(Definition of stand sb up from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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