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waited up
vb. (en-pastwait up)
Usage examples of "waited up".
After putting his horse at Coketown through the storm as if it were a leap, he waited up all night: from time to time ringing his bell with the greatest fury, charging the porter who kept watch with delinquency in withholding letters or messages that could not fail to have been entrusted to him, and demanding restitution on the spot.