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synonyms for stay up

  • attach
  • bend
  • cover
  • dangle
  • decorate
  • drape
  • drift
  • flap
  • float
  • hold
  • hover
  • lean
  • pin
  • remain
  • stick
  • swing
  • wave
  • adhere
  • beetle
  • bow
  • cling
  • deck
  • depend
  • droop
  • drop
  • fasten
  • fix
  • flop
  • furnish
  • impend
  • incline
  • loll
  • lop
  • lower
  • nail
  • overhang
  • project
  • rest
  • sag
  • tack
  • trail
  • be fastened
  • be in mid-air
  • be loose
  • be pendent
  • be poised
On this page you'll find 56 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to stay up, such as: attach, bend, cover, dangle, decorate, and drape.

antonyms for stay up

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  • detach
  • remove
  • straighten
  • unfasten
  • do
  • let go
  • loosen
  • release
  • rise
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How to use stay up in a sentence

It's to stay up for a year mind, Cunningham, tenant or no tenant, and then you can take it down and burn it if you like.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME II (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLS
As a special treat the children were allowed to stay up late and hear Uncle Roger's stories of the great sea.
SEVEN O'CLOCK STORIESROBERT GORDON ANDERSON
Well, I couldn't stay up there forever; so at last I got down, but I kept in the thick woods and on the lookout all the time.
ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, COMPLETEMARK TWAIN (SAMUEL CLEMENS)
I have had to stay up here the last few days, but I hope to go about again as usual to-morrow.
ROBIN REDBREASTMARY LOUISA MOLESWORTH
It's ever so nicer to stay up, an' if it wasn't runnin' away it would be somefing else.
THE HIGHGRADERWILLIAM MACLEOD RAINE
Do you mean that we shall have to stay up there till the tide goes out?
FIFTY-TWO STORIES FOR GIRLSVARIOUS
And 'tis specially lovely for me, 'cause I can stay up to dinner, and dress up, and everything.
MARJORIE'S BUSY DAYSCAROLYN WELLS
I have been dressed for hours—I made my maid stay up with me—waiting for your office to open so that I might come to you.
THOSE TIMES AND THESEIRVIN S. COBB
Please dont think I mean to be impertinent, I stammered back, but I dont think it is good for you to stay up here—all alone.
THE WASTED GENERATIONOWEN JOHNSON
They're not made to fly, and he couldn't stay up in the air long enough to do any good, so he couldn't find any gold that way.
UNCLE WIGGILY'S TRAVELSHOWARD R. GARIS
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OCTOBER 26, 1985
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