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outsitting

outsitting is the present participle and gerund of outsit.

Meaning of outsit

Verb

outsit (third-person singular simple present outsits, present participle outsitting, simple past and past participle outsat)

  1. To remain sitting, waiting, or in session, longer than, or beyond the time of; to outstay.
    • No Scotch government will take him at his own, or rather his wife's extravagant valuation; and betwixt his indecision and her insolence, from all I can guess, he will outsit his market, and be had cheap when no one will bid for him.1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald...

Questions about outsitting

What is outsitting the present participle and gerund of?
Outsitting is the present participle and gerund of outsit.

Words near outsitting in the dictionary

  1. outsinned
  2. outsinning
  3. outsins
  4. outsit
  5. outsits
  6. outsitting
  7. outsize
  8. outsized
  9. outsizes
  10. outsizing
  11. outskate

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