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What is another word for
sitting tight
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Present participle for to remain in a specified state or position, especially in readiness or expectation
Present participle for to refrain from taking action or changing one's mind
Present participle for to hide oneself or stay out of sight
Present participle for to pause and deliberate
Present participle for to remain in one fixed place
Present participle for to wait or remain alert for further news, information or instructions
Present participle for to tolerate or allow (something, typically dissent or opposition)
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Verb
▲
Present participle for to remain in a specified state or position, especially in readiness or expectation
lingering
waiting
staying
biding
awaiting
hanging around
sticking around
holding on
staying put
hanging out
standing by
marking time
cooling it
staying there
waiting there
lying in wait
sweating it
“Then I guess you just
sit tight
with a good book and wait until the electricity goes off and your roof starts coming off.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to refrain from taking action or changing one's mind
pausing
waiting
delaying
deferring
postponing
stalling
hanging back
holding back
biding your time
hanging fire
refraining from
being patient
putting something off
avoiding doing something
taking no action
playing a waiting game
keeping your shirt on
keeping from doing something
holding off
holding your horses
lying in wait
putting on hold
filling time
holding the line
holding your water
holding everything
waiting a minute
wavering
vacillating
dithering
lingering
hesitating
shilly-shallying
faltering
dallying
teetering
havering
staggering
swithering
wobbling
dawdling
halting
temporizing
US
scrupling
wabbling
lagging
hovering
dragging your heels
humming and hawing
dilly-dallying
procrastinating
dragging your feet
temporising
UK
shying away
demurring
fluctuating
oscillating
equivocating
hedging
alternating
sitting on fence
tergiversating
mammering
stopping
thinking about
doubting
seesawing
weighing
floundering
hanging
thinking twice
deliberating
baulking
UK
pussyfooting
stumbling
pondering
hemming and hawing
pulling back
boggling
dillydallying
balking
US
debating
straggling
staying in the background
staying back
shrinking back
staying
retarding
using delaying tactics
cooling
loitering
taking a raincheck
putting off doing something
suspending action
postponing action
poking
goldbricking
dragging
protracting
prolonging
adjourning
putting off
deferring action
playing for time
letting something slide
kicking the can down the road
tarrying
more ❯
“His outlandish haul of major championships is the product of a cautious approach, a refusal to take risks, and a determination to
sit tight
and wait for others to make mistakes.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to hide oneself or stay out of sight
hiding
lying
lurking
reposing
skulking
holing up
lying low
“The tracker had been told to
sit tight
out of sight, but he suddenly appeared out of nowhere.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to pause and deliberate
stopping
pausing
hesitating
holding on
waiting
calling time
deliberating
hanging on
having a breather
holding back
taking a break
thinking twice
holding your fire
holding your horses
resting
stalling
stopping briefly
taking a breather
taking five
taking ten
delaying
Verb
▲
Present participle for to remain in one fixed place
staying put
staying
remaining
waiting
tarrying
abiding
hanging on
staying still
hanging around
lingering
holding on
sticking around
hanging about
resting
biding
hovering
stopping
dwelling
residing
hanging
waiting around
hanging out
lodging
holding the fort
hanging round
loitering
continuing
enduring
living
delaying
staying over
inhabiting
staying on
halting
pausing
dallying
prevailing
persisting
keeping on
bunking
staying behind
roosting
squatting
holding
nesting
perching
lying
standing
sticking
settling
kicking about
kicking around
awaiting
establishing oneself
putting down roots
sweating it out
establishing yourself
staying out
lagging
remaining behind
outstaying
holding your horses
waiting a minute
holding the line
kicking your heels
sojourning
bivouacing
bivouacking
making camp
holding over
overstaying
settling in
clinging
vacillating
procrastinating
ceasing
discontinuing
stalling
adopting Fabian tactics
holding back
hanging back
hanging fire
lasting
being
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to wait or remain alert for further news, information or instructions
waiting
awaiting
hanging on
holding on
standing by
being patient
holding your horses
waiting patiently
hanging onto your hat
lying in wait
waiting on
killing time
lying low
marking time
abiding
kicking your heels
saving it
biding your time
hanging fire
holding your fire
sitting up for
pausing
sweating it out
delaying
waiting in the wings
holding everything
holding the phone
resting
holding one's breath
cooling your heels
stalling
twiddling thumbs
countdowning
staying up for
holding back
looking forward
cooling it
sweating it
wasting time
passing the time
hanging
putting on hold
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to tolerate or allow (something, typically dissent or opposition)
brooking
enduring
tolerating
bearing
taking
standing
stomaching
accepting
suffering
countenancing
abiding
wearing
supporting
sustaining
hacking
handling
swallowing
biding
absorbing
meeting
withstanding
pocketing
allowing
tholing
permitting
going
sticking
sanctioning
putting up with
sweating out
sticking out
living with
coping with
standing for
going along with
admitting of
hearing of
hanging in there
hanging in
facing
receiving
conceding
submitting to
bearing with
consenting to
hanging tough
undergoing
weathering
braving
going through
experiencing
indulging
abiding by
living through
condoning
encountering
resisting
grinning and bear it
approving
seeing
surviving
endorsing
admitting
warranting
dealing with
toughing out
meeting with
riding out
sitting through
feeling
standing up to
digesting
coping
having
passing
seeing through
acceding to
agreeing to
approving of
taking kindly to
yielding to
lumping it
sticking with
waiting out
facing up to
staying the course
allowing for
resigning oneself to
bearing the brunt of
grinning and bear
tasting
persevering
knowing
persisting
witnessing
sweating
defying
okaying
confronting
excusing
shouldering
submitting
fulfilling
holding out against
nodding at
giving green light
taking something lying down
sitting and taking it
coming in for
conceding to
taking patiently
bowing to
becoming accustomed to
becoming resigned to
becoming reconciled to
subjecting oneself to
getting used to
reconciling oneself to
making the best of
coming up against
taking on
holding with
bearing up under
grappling with
learning to live with
contending with
sticking it out
entertaining
managing
helping
lumping
buying
reconciling
maintaining
assuming
authorizing
US
acquiescing
licencing
UK
licensing
US
blinking at
winking at
authorising
UK
sitting still for
going with
withstanding subjection to
passing through
resigning yourself
reconciling oneself
keeping up with
biting the bullet
submitting oneself to
carrying
coming to grips with
standing firm against
sitting out
toughing out it
seeing out
getting on with
taking it
seeing through to the bitter end
falling for
green-lighting
acquiescing to
withtaking
adjusting to
onfanging
acclimatizing oneself to
surrendering to
capitulating to
sitting and take
accommodating oneself to
eating
understanding
living out
weathering the storm
pardoning
forgiving
making allowances for
laughing off
making allowance
accepting apology for
outlasting
overcoming
surmounting
gainstanding
withstaying
gainstaying
withsitting
withsetting
undertaking
observing
bowing
sharing
yielding
deferring
obeying
following
dying hard against
bearing up against
prevailing against
pulling through
holding out
getting through
persisting with
persevering against
coming through
daring
tackling
honoring
US
respecting
honouring
UK
appeasing
engaging
humoring
US
heeding
humouring
UK
fighting
acknowledging
battling
courting
risking
challenging
eyeballing
opposing
crossing
bearding
complying with
adhering to
engaging in
bearing up
taking it lying down
acquiescing in
playing it by the book
stooping to
playing by the rules
conforming to
keeping in step
toing the line
brazening
playing against
going up against
venturing
coming to grips
making a stand
playing
bracing for
breasting
affronting
outbraving
flying in face of
meeting head-on
squaring off
accosting
outfacing
taking the bull by the horns
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