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stay up

Phrasal Verb with stay
 
 
/steɪ/ verb

Definition

to go to bed later than usual: [+ to do sth] She stayed up to watch a film.
(Definition of stay up from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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