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Synonyms for sit

take a seat

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  • take a seat
  • perch
  • settle down
  • be seated
  • take a pew
  • plant yourself
  • park yourself
  • plonk yourself
  • take the weight off your feet
  • install yourself
  • ensconce yourself

pose

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be member of

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  • be member of
  • serve on
  • have a seat on
  • preside on

convene

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be situated

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  • be situated
  • stand
  • lie
  • be placed
  • be positioned

babysit

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sit about or around

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  • laze about or around
  • hang about or around
  • loaf about or around
  • loll about or around
  • lounge about or around
  • stand about or around
  • idle about or around

sit in on something

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sit up

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Synonyms for sit

to assume a particular position, as for a portrait

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to cause to take a sitting position

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Synonyms for sit

be around, often idly or without specific purpose

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take a seat

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be in session

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assume a posture as for artistic purposes

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sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions

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be located or situated somewhere

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work or act as a baby-sitter

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serve in a specific professional capacity

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Hearken, thine also shall be the wisdom of the old witch who sits aloft forever, frozen into everlasting stone--thine and one other's.
"After I had heard these words, or had dreamed that I heard them, I slept indeed, and when I woke the forest beneath was like the clouds of mist, but the grey light glinted upon the face of her who sits in stone above.
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In the morning came the fox again and met him as he was beginning his journey, and said, 'Go straight forward, till you come to a castle, before which lie a whole troop of soldiers fast asleep and snoring: take no notice of them, but go into the castle and pass on and on till you come to a room, where the golden bird sits in a wooden cage; close by it stands a beautiful golden cage; but do not try to take the bird out of the shabby cage and put it into the handsome one, otherwise you will repent it.' Then the fox stretched out his tail again, and the young man sat himself down, and away they went over stock and stone till their hair whistled in the wind.
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Or could we break our way By force, and at our heels all Hell should rise With blackest Insurrection, to confound Heav'ns purest Light, yet our great Enemie All incorruptible would on his Throne Sit unpolluted, and th' Ethereal mould Incapable of stain would soon expel Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire Victorious.
But what ow I to his commands above Who hates me, and hath hither thrust me down Into this gloom of TARTARUS profound, To sit in hateful Office here confin'd, Inhabitant of Heav'n, and heav'nlie-born, Here in perpetual agonie and pain, With terrors and with clamors compasst round Of mine own brood, that on my bowels feed: Thou art my Father, thou my Author, thou My being gav'st me; whom should I obey But thee, whom follow?
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