sit by

Verb

Meaning

be inactive or indifferent while something is happening

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

sit back not interfere sit idly by keep out of allow to happen refrain from interfering abstain from interfering abstain from taking action avoid getting involved choose not to get involved choose not to interfere choose not to intervene do nothing to help do nothing to stop fail to stop
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Antonyms

act participate contribute engage interfere interrupt
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Hypernyms

watch look on

Examples

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way. Vincent van Gogh

You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug. Michael Parenti

Stately, kindly, lordly friend Condescend Here to sit by me. Algernon Charles Swinburne

To sit by the ring and tell the man inside, 'knock him down.' Arabic Proverb

If you sit by the river long enough, you will see the body of your enemy float by. Japanese Proverb

It is too much to expect of a cat that she should sit by the milk and not lap it. German Proverb

Close letter words and terms

sit back sit back and do nothing sit bone sit dead-red sit down sit down to