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sitdown (third-person singular simple presentsits down,present participlesitting down,simple pastsat downor(dated, poetic)sate down,past participlesat downor(archaic, dialectal)sitten down)

  1. (intransitive) To assume a sitting position from a standing position.
    Sit down! We have work to do.
    Isat down in the armchair, and my sissat down on the floor.
    • 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.],The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany:Peter Schöffer],→OCLC,Matthew ix:[10],folio xj, recto:
      And lo / many publicans and ſynners / cam andſatt downe alſo with Ieſus / and his diſciples.
    • 1560 September 25, Ihon Daus, transl.,A Famouse Cronicle of Oure Time, Called Sleidanes Commentaries, Concerning the State of Religion and Common Wealth, […], London: […] Ihon Daye, for Abraham Veale, and Nicholas England, folio cccxij, verso:
      From thence he cometh forth again ⁊ſitteth down vnder his cloth of eſtate.
    • 1579, Plutarke of Chæronea [i.e.,Plutarch], “The Life ofMarcus Antonius”, inThomas North, transl.,The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, […], London: […] Richard Field,→OCLC,page1001:
      When ſhe knew this galley a farre of, ſhe lift vp a ſigne in the poope of her ſhippe, and ſoAntonius comming to it, was pluckt vp whereCleopatra was, howbeit he ſaw her not at his firſt comming, nor ſhe him, but went andſate down alone in the prowe of his ſhippe, and ſaid neuer a word, clapping his head betwene both his hands.
    • 1605, [William Bradshaw],A Proposition. Concerning Kneeling in the Very Act of Receiuing Howsoever. […], page13:
      Therfore where it is ſuppoſed that Chriſt and his Apoſtles miniſtred & receiued ſitting but by occaſion, and not of purpoſe: becauſe they were ſitting before in eating the paſſeover. wher as if Chriſt hadſitten down of purpoſ to adminiſter the cõmunion, then all that is ſaid is graunted to be ſome purpoſe.
    • 1648, Galliazzo Gualdo Priorato, translated byHenry [Carey, 2nd] Earle of Monmouth,An History of the Late Warres and Other State Affaires of the Best Part of Christendom, Beginning with the King of Swethlands Entrance into Germany, and Continuing to the Yeare 1640, London: W. Wilson, and are to bee sold by Iohn Hardesty, Thomas Huntington, and Thomas Iackson, […], pages340–341:
      […] he madeMaracini advance with his men towardsOder, to hinderOrang hells further proceedings, or his joyning withBannier, which if it had happened time enough, that Elector would have had ſomewhat elſe to doe, then to haveſitten down before a ſtrong Towne which had a prettie Army in the Field to aſſiſt it.
    • 1660, W[illiam] S[mith],An Holy Kiss of Peace, Sent from the Seed of Life, Greeting All the Lambs and Little Ones with a Tender Salutation. […], London: […] Robert Wilson, […], page13:
      […] and then made to thy ſelf a Reſt, and haſtſitten down at Eaſe, promiſing to thy ſelf Security in thy profeſſed Formality, where thy Vitals have been ſtopped;[…]
    • 1798 October 24,Jane Austen, “Letter VIII”, inEdward, Lord Brabourne, editor,Letters of Jane Austen, volume I, London:Richard Bentley & Son, […], published1884,→OCLC,page155:
      Wesate down to dinner a little after five, and had some beefsteaks and a boiled fowl, but no oyster sauce.
    • 1819,Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym;Walter Scott], chapter VI, inTales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume III (A Legend of Montrose), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] forArchibald Constable and Co.; London:Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […],→OCLC,page274:
      So saying, shesate down at a little distance upon the bench on which Allan M‘Aulay was placed, and tuning her clairshach, a small harp, about thirty inches in height, she accompanied it with her voice.
    • 1944 July and August, W. G. Chapman, “The First of the Exeter Expresses”, inRailway Magazine, page215:
      "[…] my only chance ofsitting down was for the hour we were at dinner.[…]."
  2. (transitive or reflexive) To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to.
    Sit your assdown and shut up.
    Isat himdown and explained to him how things truly work around here.
    • 1843 April,Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 6, Monk Samson”, inPast and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.:Charles C[offin] Little andJames Brown, published1843,→OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):
      Coming home, therefore, Isat medown secretly under the Shrine of St. Edmund, fearing lest our Lord Abbot should seize and imprison me.
    • 1922,A. E. Housman,Astronomy, lines3–4:
      Oh I willsit medown and weep / For bones in Africa.
    • 2016 October 3, Tad Friend, “Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny”, inThe New Yorker‎[1]:
      Two YC partnerssat Altmandown last year “and told him, ‘Slow down, chill out!’
  3. (intransitive, figurative) To meet formally at a conference table.
    • 2013 July 19,Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, inThe Guardian Weekly, volume189, number 6, page18:
      Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneouslysitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.
  4. (intransitive, figurative) To meet with someone for discussions, negotiations or interrogation.
    Isat down with him about the allegations.
  5. (intransitive) To assume a low or sunken position.
    The ball scooted off the fairway andsat down in the thick rough.
    As we all climbed aboard, the little boatsat down low in the water.

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to assume a sitting position from a standing position
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  • “sit down”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.

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