Keep up meaning
Keep up is a phrasal verb with 3 meanings. One of them is to cause someone to remain awake or delay going to bed.
- Past simple
- kept up
- Past participle
- kept up
- -ing form
- keeping up
What keep up means
B2
To cause someone to remain awake or delay going to bed
The neighbours' music kept us up until midnight.
2 more meanings of keep up are in the Retite app, each with an example and a translation into your language.
More meanings in the appSimilar phrasal verbs
With keep: keep on doing, keep in, keep off, keep on, keep out, keep down, keep away, keep back, keep from doing, keep in with.
With up: wake up, pick up, grow up, line up, make up, set up, put up, go up, bring up, mess up.
Common questions
What does keep up mean?
It has 3 meanings. One of them is to cause someone to remain awake or delay going to bed. The other 2, each with an example and a translation into your language, are in the Retite app.
What is the past tense of keep up?
Kept up, which is also its past participle.
Meanings and examples are written by Retite. The meanings follow Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0). Levels are based on the CEFR-J Wordlist and set by Retite.
