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sit over

sit over verb: to move along a seat or bench to make room.

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To move along a seat or bench to make room.
    • She sat over toward the front of the train car.
  2. To be on the left side of a player.
    Antonyms:
    sit under
  3. (transitive) To weigh heavily on (someone) or to trouble (someone)
    • His legal problems sat over him all year.
    • The trump cards hadn't been played yet, so they sat over his strategy.

Antonyms of sit over

Forms of sit over

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

Questions about sit over

What does sit over mean?
Sit over means to move along a seat or bench to make room.
What part of speech is sit over?
Sit over is a verb.
What is the past tense of sit over?
The past tense of sit over is sat over.

Words near sit over in the dictionary

  1. sit on the fence
  2. sit one's ass down
  3. sit one's butt down
  4. sit out
  5. sit outs
  6. sit over
  7. sit right
  8. sit shiva
  9. sit spin
  10. sit spins
  11. sit still

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