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to rest on the buttocks or haunches<everybody needs to sit down, or no one will be able to see the movie>Synonymsset [chiefly dialect]Related Wordsperch; lounge, slouch, sprawl, squat, straddleNear Antonymsarise, get up, rise, stand
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to cause to sit down<the host had to sit some of the guests on the porch>— see seat
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to cover and warm eggs to hatch them<we didnʼt want to disturb the hens, as they were sitting>— see set 1
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to occupy a place or location<the monument that sits at the entrance to the battlefield>— see stand 1
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