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sit
What does sit mean?
sit (verb): be seated.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you pronounce sit?
/sɪt/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does sit come from?
From Middle English sitten, from Old English sittan, from Proto-West Germanic *sittjan, from Proto-Germanic *sitjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“sit”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What are antonyms of sit?
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “sit” mean?
be seated
Right! That's what “sit” means.
to pursue
Not quite: that's what chase means.
to vanish
Not quite: that's what disappear means.
to intend
Not quite: that's what plan means.
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