Verb

1. To assume a sitting position from a standing position.

   Sit down! We have work to do.

2. To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to.
   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 6, Monk Samson

     Coming home, therefore, I sat me down secretly under the Shrine of St. Edmund, fearing lest our Lord Abbot should seize and imprison me

   • 1922, A. E. Housman, Astronomy, lines 3-4

     Oh I will sit me down and weep

     For bones in Africa.

See also

• set down
• sit
• sit up
• stand up
• lie down