"sit around" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: sits around [present, singular, third-person], sitting around [participle, present], sat around [participle, past], sat around [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|sit<,,sat> around}} sit around (third-person singular simple present sits around, present participle sitting around, simple past and past participle sat around)
  1. To spend time sitting idly, not doing anything important. Translations (sit idly): istuskella (Finnish), istuksia (Finnish), herumsitzen (German), rumsitzen (German), desideo (Latin), sedeo (Latin), moteko (Maori), дэмий суух (demii suux) [Cyrillic] (Mongolian)

Inflected forms

Download JSONL data for sit around meaning in English (2.1kB)

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