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sit back

sit back verb: to recline while still in a seated position, with one's back on the frame of the seat.

Verb

sit back (third-person singular simple present sits back, present participle sitting back, simple past and past participle sat back)

  1. To recline while still in a seated position, with one's back on the frame of the seat.
    • Please just sit back and watch the show.
    • She sat back on her haunches.
  2. (idiomatic) To relax, to not exert oneself.
    • Predictably in the second half it was the Potters, who went searching for goals as Fulham sat back to defend their lead.2010 December 28, Marc Vesty, “Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham”, in BBC

sit back meaning in Malayalam and Kannada

sit back in Malayalam

unwind, relax, lie back
സ്വസ്ഥമായിരിക്കുക, ഇളവെടുക്കുക, ഉദ്യമത്തിനു ശക്തി കുറയ്ക്കുക, ആശ്വസിച്ചിരിക്കുക, നിഷ്ക്രിയനായയിരിക്കുക, അയവാക്കുക

sit back in Kannada

ನಾಂಬು

Forms of sit back

third-person singular presentsits back
present participlesitting back
past participlesat back
pastsat back

Words formed from sit back

Questions about sit back

What does sit back mean?
Sit back means to recline while still in a seated position, with one's back on the frame of the seat.
What is sit back in Malayalam?
Sit back in Malayalam is സ്വസ്ഥമായിരിക്കുക, ഇളവെടുക്കുക, ഉദ്യമത്തിനു ശക്തി കുറയ്ക്കുക. See Sit back meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is sit back?
Sit back is a verb.
What is the past tense of sit back?
The past tense of sit back is sat back.

Words near sit back in the dictionary

  1. sisyrinchium
  2. sisyrinchiums
  3. sit
  4. sit about
  5. sit around
  6. sit back
  7. sit back on one's heels
  8. sit bone
  9. sit bones
  10. sit by
  11. sit dead-red

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sit back (page history and authors); sit back (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); sit back (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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