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sit down

To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to.
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Coming home, therefore, I sat me down secretly under the Shrine of St. Edmund, fearing lest our Lord Abbot should seize and imprison me.

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Additional definitions for 'sit down':

sit downTo assume a sitting position from a standing position.
sit downTo meet formally at a conference table.
sit downTo assume a low or sunken position.
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