How to pronounce “couch”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (Canada, US, Australia, Ireland) An item of furniture, often upholstered, for the comfortable seating of more than one person; a sofa.
• A bed, a resting-place.
• The den of an otter.
• (art, painting and gilding) A preliminary layer, as of colour or size.
• (brewing) A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley.
• (metonymic, usually as "the couch") Psychotherapy.
• (figurative, politics, usually as "the couch") Voters who opt out of voting, usually by staying home on their couch.
• [Verb]
• (intransitive) To lie down; to recline (upon a couch or other place of repose).
• (intransitive) To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.
• (transitive) To lay something upon a bed or other resting place.
• (transitive) To arrange or dispose as if in a bed.
• (transitive) To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.
• (transitive) To lower (a spear or lance) to the position of attack.
• (ophthalmology, transitive) In the treatment of a cataract in the eye, to displace the opaque lens with a sharp object such as a needle. The technique is regarded as largely obsolete.
• (papermaking, transitive) To transfer (for example, sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire mould to a felt blanket for further drying.
• (sewing, transitive) To attach a thread onto fabric with small stitches in order to add texture.
• (transitive) To phrase in a particular style; to use specific wording for.
• (archaic, intransitive) To lie down for concealment; to conceal, to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly or secretly.

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Similar Sounds

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