sit down
— phrasal verb with sit uk/sɪt/us/sɪt/verb present participle sitting, past tense and past participle sat
to move your body so that the lower part of it is resting on a seat or on the ground:
I sat down on the sofa next to Barbara.
More examples
- Do sit down and make yourself comfortable.
- That'll do, Timothy! Please just sit down and keep quiet.
- I must sit down, my feet are killing me!
- He motioned me to sit down.
- He nudged the cat off the sofa so that he could sit down.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Sitting and standing
- akimbo
- astride
- attention
- bestride
- cross-legged
- crouch
- four
- pew
- plop
- plump (sb/sth) down
- rampant
- seated
- seating
- sit sth out
- stand
- stand round
- strike
- take a pew! idiom
- take the weight off your feet/legs idiom
- weight
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