check up on sb
— phrasal verb with check uk/tʃek/us/tʃek/verb
C1 to try to discover what someone is doing in order to be certain that that person is doing what they should be doing:
My mum checks up on me most evenings to see that I've done my homework.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Testing, checking and experimenting
- assay
- check
- check sth out
- collector
- crosscheck
- double-check
- inspect
- inspection
- inspector
- play around with sth
- positive vetting
- screen
- spy
- test
- test sth out
- tester
- trial
- trial run
- try sth for size idiom
- try-out
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