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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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We found Miss Verinder, pale and agitated, restlessly pacing her sitting-room from end to end.
I will watch the sitting-room door; and the moment it moves, I will blow out my light.
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Anne closed the sitting-room door again, and turned to Arnold--who had risen, in surprise, to his feet.
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Arrived there, she paused to listen for a moment, then breathed a little more freely and led him to a small sitting-room at the end of a long passage.
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I got them at Burns' scrap merchants for the two large niches in the hall sitting-room."
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Close to the village duck pond, it has a comfortable sitting-room with open stone fireplace, dining-room and one, very large, upstairs bedroom with a dressing-room and en-suite bathroom.
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Handy for the village store, baker and two pubs, it has a sitting-room with cosy inglenook fireplace, study area, a detached garage, summer house and lovely old-fashioned garden.
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There's a dining room which could be used as a second sitting-room with a bay window and fitted window seat.
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Now their sitting-room is deep red with flashes of gold, the dining- room has terracotta walls and the kitchen is painted tartan.
Painted love; Debbie and John Reay wanted a new house but didn't want to move. So they transformed their old place with colour
The sitting-room has built-in cupboards and views over the gardens and the Derwent Valley.
Leafing home; A WELL-TENDED GARDEN CAN MAKE YOUR PLACE GROW IN VALUE
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