sit out
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sit out
verb sits out · sitting out · sat out
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To decline to participate; particularly, to decline to dance.
I don't like this tune, and I'm rather tired, so I think I'll just sit out.
Similar: opt out
- To await the cessation of, without taking part. A large proportion of the millhands sat out the strike in their native villages, sometimes hundreds of miles from Bombay; the remainder survived precariously in the city with the help of casual labour and rations of grain […]
- To be away from the table in the midst of an ongoing game, thus automatically placing one's forced bets and otherwise folding every hand when it is one's time to act.
- To lean out to the windward side of a sailboat in order to counterbalance the effects of the wind on the sails.
- To escape a hold while face down by swinging one's legs around into the sitting position.
noun sit outs
- Alternative form of sitout During seven NAACP-sponsored school “sit outs” or “holidays” in Jacksonville more than 108,000 children had been kept home by their parents to protest segregated schools and other inequities.
- Alternative form of sit-out The parent says, “If you don't start picking up your dirty clothes by the time I count to three, you will need to take a sit out.”
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verb decline to participate
| Español | quedarse, quedarse aquí |
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| Deutsch | ausstehen, aussetzen |
| Русский | отсидеться otsidetʹsja, пропустить propustitʹ |
verb await the cessation of
| Deutsch | aussitzen, durchstehen |
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verb lean out to the windward side of a sailboat in order to counterbalance
| Deutsch | ausreiten |
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@misc{sit_out_2026,
title = {sit out},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sit%20out},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
