outsit

English

Etymology

From out- +‎ sit.

Verb

outsit (third-person singular simple present outsits, present participle outsitting, simple past and past participle outsat)

1. To remain sitting, or in session, longer than, or beyond the time of; to outstay.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “outsit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• sit out, sit-out, sitout