Definitions for couch

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couch couch

Spelling: [kouch or for 6, 14, kooch]

IPA: /kaʊtʃ or for 6, 14, kutʃ/

Couch is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 23 anagrams from letters in couch (cchou).

Definitions for couch

noun

1. a piece of furniture for seating from two to four people, typically in the form of a bench with a back, sometimes having an armrest at one or each end, and partly or wholly upholstered and often fitted with springs, tailored cushions, skirts, etc.; sofa.
2. a similar article of furniture, with a headrest at one end, on which some patients of psychiatrists or psychoanalysts lie while undergoing treatment.
3. a bed or other place of rest; a lounge; any place used for repose.
4. the lair of a wild beast.
5. Brewing. the frame on which barley is spread to be malted.
6. Papermaking. the board or felt blanket on which wet pulp is laid for drying into paper sheets.
7. Fine Arts. a primer coat or layer, as of paint.

Idioms

1. on the couch, Informal. undergoing psychiatric or psychoanalytic treatment.

verb (used with object)

1. to arrange or frame (words, a sentence, etc.); put into words; express:
2. to express indirectly or obscurely:
3. to lower or bend down, as the head.
4. to lower (a spear, lance, etc.) to a horizontal position, as for attack.
5. to put or lay down, as for rest or sleep; cause to lie down.
6. to lay or spread flat.
7. Papermaking. to transfer (a sheet of pulp) from the wire to the couch.
8. to embroider by couching.
9. Archaic. to hide; conceal.

verb (used without object)

1. to lie at rest or asleep; repose; recline.
2. to crouch; bend; stoop.
3. to lie in ambush or in hiding; lurk.
4. to lie in a heap for decomposition or fermentation, as leaves.

Origin of couch

1300-50; (noun) Middle English couche Anglo-French, Old French, derivative of coucher; (v.) Middle English couchen Anglo-French, Old French coucher, Old French colcher Latin collocāre to put

Examples for couch

Most people know the Universal Life Church as a quick and easy place to get ordained without leaving your couch.

I watch every episode alone on my couch and I just sit there and laugh, and laugh.

She arose, gently placed his arm on the couch, and looked upon his face.

They laid Paralus upon a couch, with the belief that he slept to wake no more.

Afterward, I looked downward, and saw my dead body lying on a couch.

In short, we found ways to couch messages of failure or inadequacy.

I need my best friend to sit on the couch and watch TV with me; I need Wonder Woman to save the world.

Aspasia sank on the couch, and bowed her head upon her hands.

With the first set I did, the colors of the couch determined that the rest of it would be blue and yellow and white.

Pericles went to seek his son, and found him reclining on the couch where he had left him.