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Definition of Sit out
1. Verb. Not participate in (an activity, such as a dance or a sports event). "He sat out the game"
2. Verb. Endure to the end.
Definition of Sit out
1. Verb. (idiomatic) To decline to participate; particularly, to decline to dance. ¹
2. Verb. (idiomatic) To not participate. ¹
3. Verb. (nautical) To lean out to the windward side of a sailboat in order to counterbalance the effects of the wind on the sails. ¹
4. Verb. ''(Amateur Wrestling Term)'' To escape a hold while face-down by swinging one's legs around into the sitting position. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sit Out
Literary usage of Sit out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical Dictionary of the English and German Languages by Felix Flügel, Johann Gottfried Flügel (1861)
"wear out bj sitting; 2. to sit out (a given time); to pay off (a debt) by sitting
in pri son; .... sit out ..."
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