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sit on en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To block, suppress, restrain (something).
    • The chairman sat on the report until the end of the legislative session.
  2. (idiomatic, informal, transitive) To restrain (a person).
    • He started to act up, but she sat on him.
  3. (idiomatic, transitive) To take no action on (something); to hold (something) in reserve without actually using.
    • I sent the boss my proposal three weeks ago and he's just been sitting on it.
    • I began to call the INS regularly to check up on the status of my application. I got the proverbial "run-around," and this effort only confirmed my suspicion that the INS was sitting on my application. 1986, Gilberto Gerald, “With My Head Held Up High”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology:
  4. (transitive) To be a member of (something).
    • He sits on the appropriations committee.
  5. (transitive) To hold an official inquiry regarding (something); to deliberate about (something).
  6. (euphemistic, transitive) To insert (something) into one's vagina or anus from below.
    • Let me sit on it.
  7. (transitive) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sit, on.
    • The cat sat on the mat.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
sat on Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
sat on Tense=Past lexicographic
sits on Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
sitting on Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
sit upon alternative lexicographic

Relateds

sit on it

Translations (2)

it sospendere (to restrain) · it bloccare (to restrain)