Synonyms for sit up
sit up

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1. sit-upverb

   a stomach exercise in which a person sits up from a supine position without using the arms for leverage

2. stay up, sit upverb

   not go to bed

   "Don't stay up so late--you have to go to work tomorrow"; "We sat up all night to watch the election"

   Synonyms:
   stay up

3. sit upverb

   change to an upright sitting position

   "He sat up in bed"

   Synonyms:
   stay up

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1. • Change Posture
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1. Richard Dyer:

   People in the environmental movement and climate scientists have been trying to persuade the public and government to take serious action and nothing has happened, we want to use any way we can to make people and governments sit up and notice.

2. Torrei Hart:

   I’m at a place in my life where I feel like I have a target on my back, and because of that I should make smart decisions. And recently, I didn’t. You know, I’m not perfect. I’m not going to sit up here and say that I am or claim to be in any way shape or form. And I made a bad error in judgment and I put myself in a bad environment where only bad things can happen and they did.

3. Gail Besner:

   My hope is that they will be able to sit up on their own, walk and play like any other child.

4. Trevor Lawrence:

   Season is not going to get canceled, we have seven or eight more games, i’m not going to sit up here and say the positive things that came out of it, there’s not much out of it. We got our butt kicked, it didn’t look good — all the way around. Where you go from here is just keep going to work, everybody stay together — keep fighting. I know I will keep fighting.

5. Tim Burton, Burton On Burton:

   I was very strange back then. I could see I had problems. I would sit in a closet a lot of the time and not come out, or I would sit up on top of my desk, or under my desk, or do weird things like get my wisdom teeth out and bleed all over the hallways.