if a journalist stands up a story, they provide evidence or proof that it is true
to not come to meet someone who you have arranged to meet, especially someone who you are having or starting a sexual or romantic relationship with
to put your body into an upright position from a sitting or lying position
to react in a particular way to severe conditions or treatment
to state or show publicly that you support someone or something, especially when something unpleasant or dangerous could happen to you as a result
to still seem true or correct after being examined carefully
--- Eamon Fish was the poster-boy of cutting-edge, stand-up comedy.
A man at the back stood up to ask a question.
A stand-up wash in the kitchen suited me and I wouldn't have put it past him to do a jimmy riddle in the tub, just to spite me.
An overpowered Zodiac with a fiberglass transom and stand-up steering console.
Chas, you know, was always delicate and they were anxious about how he would stand up to shock.
Despite those two years on the box, he was still a stand-up at heart.
Did she stand you up?
I couldn't do anything when I was sitting down, but when Saisse forced me to stand up I feigned a dizzy spell.
I wasn’t sure how well the house would stand up in a storm.
It’s time for people who care about freedom to stand up and be counted.
Out of the corner of her eye she saw a few people stand up from the bus stop bench.
She tried to stand up, to direct the flow of marks into the wall or ceiling.
She was confident her witness would stand up well to detailed questioning.
Stand up straight and take your hands out of your pockets.
The news agency had done the basics to stand the story up.
We all knew her story wouldn’t stand up in court.
You have the chair. I don’t mind eating standing up.
stands up
standing up
stood up
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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