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SIT DOWN
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Be seated
Synonyms:
sit; sit down
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
"Sit down" entails doing...:
sit; sit down (take a seat)
Verb group:
seat; sit; sit down (show to a seat; assign a seat for)
sit; sit down (take a seat)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "sit down"):
lounge (sit or recline comfortably)
sprawl (sit or lie with one's limbs spread out)
perch; rest; roost (sit, as on a branch)
crouch; hunker; hunker down; scrunch; scrunch up; squat (sit on one's heels)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 2
Meaning:
Show to a seat; assign a seat for
Example:
The host seated me next to Mrs. Smith
Synonyms:
seat; sit; sit down
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "sit down" is one way to...):
lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)
Cause:
sit; sit down (be seated)
Verb group:
sit; sit down (be seated)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "sit down"):
reseat (show to a different seat)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Sense 3
Meaning:
Take a seat
Synonyms:
sit; sit down
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "sit down" is one way to...):
change posture (undergo a change in bodily posture)
Verb group:
sit; sit down (be seated)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Antonym:
arise (rise to one's feet)
Context examples:
Sit down, man, and let me have my rest!
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She began at length to recover, to fidget about in her chair, get up, sit down again, wonder, and bless herself.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
"Won't you sit down, Mr. Eden?" the girl was saying.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Pray sit down, and let me have your letter.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Sit down, and I will be both.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
"Oh, yes; sit down in that chair, please," replied Oz.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Dummling answered: “I have only cinder-cake and sour beer; if that pleases you, we will sit down and eat.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
He never forgot a kindly greeting or a cheering word, and to sit down for a long talk with them (“gas” he called it) was as much his delight as theirs.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
So he arose and trotted forlornly back to camp, pausing once, and twice, to sit down and whimper and to listen to the call that still sounded in the depths of the forest.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The kind-hearted, polite old man might then sit down and feel that he had done his duty, and made every fair lady welcome and easy.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
