Get up and Nap

Get up

Get up verb - To leave one's bed.
Usage example: you need to get right up when the alarm goes off in the morning

Nap is an antonym for get up.

Nap

Nap verb - To sleep lightly or briefly.
Usage example: decided to let the kids nap for a few more minutes before waking them

Get up is an antonym for nap.

Nearby Words: napping, napped, napless

Both terms in one sentence

  • Cool Cat From their perspective, they run the world without ever having to get up from their nap.
    Source: Cool Cat
  • Film / Ben & Arthur He's so lazy that his Establishing Character Moment is him complaining about having to get up from a nap.
  • Video Game / Fortune Summoners While it's entirely possible for the whole party to be killed/knocked outnote The manual states that if all characters are knocked out, they'll "take a very long nap.", the player characters who are knocked out later get up and cower for the rest of combat until healed.
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