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take a chair

take a chair verb: to sit down (usually, but not always, in a chair).

Verb

take a chair (third-person singular simple present takes a chair, present participle taking a chair, simple past took a chair, past participle taken a chair)

  1. To sit down (usually, but not always, in a chair).
    • Consequently Mr. Micawber was soon so overcome, that he mingled his tears with hers and mine; until he begged me to do him the favour of taking a chair on the staircase, while he got her into bed.1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC

Forms of take a chair

third-person singular presenttakes a chair
present participletaking a chair
pasttook a chair
past participletaken a chair

Questions about take a chair

What does take a chair mean?
Take a chair means to sit down (usually, but not always, in a chair).
What part of speech is take a chair?
Take a chair is a verb.
What is the past tense of take a chair?
The past tense of take a chair is took a chair.

Words near take a chair in the dictionary

  1. take a bow
  2. take a break
  3. take a breath
  4. take a breather
  5. take a bullet
  6. take a chair
  7. take a chance
  8. take a cotton to
  9. take a crack at
  10. take a crap
  11. take a decision

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