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sitz

sitz is the ellipsis of sitz bath.

Meaning of sitz bath

Noun

sitz bath (plural sitz baths)

  1. A hydrotherapeutic bath taken in a sitting position.
    Synonyms:
    hip bath, sitz
  2. A bathing device which allows immersion of the buttocks and pelvis up to the hips, while sitting in the device

Verb

sitz (third-person singular simple present sitzes, present participle sitzing, simple past and past participle sitzed)

  1. (ambitransitive) To take, or place in, a sitz bath.

Forms of sitz

Noun
pluralsitzes
Verb
third-person singular presentsitzes
present participlesitzing
past participlesitzed
pastsitzed

Origin of sitz

From sitz bath, from German sitz, from sitzen (“to sit”).

Phrases with sitz

Questions about sitz

What does sitz mean?
Sitz means to take, or place in, a sitz bath.
What is sitz the ellipsis of?
Sitz is the ellipsis of sitz bath.
What part of speech is sitz?
Sitz is a verb.
What is the past tense of sitz?
The past tense of sitz is sitzed.

Words near sitz in the dictionary

  1. situtunga
  2. situtungas
  3. Sitwell
  4. Sitwellian
  5. Sitwellism
  6. sitz
  7. sitz bath
  8. sitz baths
  9. Sitz im Leben
  10. sitzball
  11. sitzbath

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sitz (page history and authors); sitz bath (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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