keep someone up late
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.02 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To prevent a person from going to bed at their usual time.
Example Sentences
- "Few political careers start when people are in their 70s, but Hendy is actually relishing it, although he is incensed sometimes by the pointlessness of the posturing by the opposition, which keeps him up late. "The bit I don't like is getting home at 0100 or 0200 in the morning because the opposition have been fruitlessly arguing for a long time.""
Inflected Forms
keeps someone up late (present, singular)
keeping someone up late (participle, present)
kept someone up late (participle, past)
kept someone up late (past)