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Definition of 'sit up'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (verb) sit-up
a stomach exercise in which a person sits up from a supine position without using the arms for leverage

2. (verb) stay up, sit up
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"

3. (verb) sit up
change to an upright sitting position
"He sat up in bed"

Definition of 'sit up'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) sit up
to move from lying down to a sitting position
He sat up suddenly.; The nurse sat her up in bed.

2. sit up
to sit with your back straight
Sit up straight!

Translation of 'sit up'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to rise to a sitting position Can the patient sit up?
Afrikaans: regop sit	Arabic: يَقوم، يَقِف	Bulgarian: седя изправен
Brazilian: sentar-se	Czech: vstát	German: sich aufsetzen
Danish: sidde op	Greek: ανακάθομαι, ανασηκώνομαι	Spanish: incorporarse (en la cama)
Estonian: istuma tõusma	Farsi: بلند شدن و نشستن	Finnish: nousta
French: s'asseoir bien droit	Hebrew: לְהִתרוֹמֵם לִישִיבָה	Hindi: व्यायाम, कसरत, उठने लेटने
Croatian: uspraviti se, uspravno sj	Hungarian: felül	Indonesian: bangkit duduk
Icelandic: setjast upp	Italian: (tirarsi su a sedere)	Japanese: 起き上がる
Korean: 일어나 앉다	Lithuanian: atsisėsti	Latvian: piecelties sēdus stāvoklī
Malay: duduk tegak	Dutch: opzitten	Norwegian: sette seg opp, sitte
Polish: wstawać, podnosić się	Persian: بلند شدن و نشستن	Pashto: پورته كيدل او كښينستل
Portuguese: sentar-se na cama	Romanian: a se ridica	Russian: приподняться и сесть
Slovak: vstať	Slovenian: pokonci sedeti	Serbian: podići se u sedeći položa
Swedish: sätta sig upp	Thai: นั่งตัวตรง	Turkish: doğrulup oturmak
Taiwanese: 坐起	Ukrainian: підвестися в ліжку	Urdu: بیٹھنے کی حالت میں آنا
Vietnamese: ngồi thẳng lên	Chinese: 坐起
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