couch
/kaʊ̯t͡ʃ/ verbo C2- To lie down; to recline (upon a couch or other place of repose).
- To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.
- To lay something upon a bed or other resting place.
- To arrange or dispose as if in a bed.
- To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.
- To lower (a spear or lance) to the position of attack.
- 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.
- To transfer (for example, sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire mould to a felt blanket for further drying.
He/she/it couches · Pasado couched · Participio pasado couched · Forma en -ing couching
Formas del verbo
- Forma base
- couch
- He/she/it
- couches
- Pasado
- couched
- Participio pasado
- couched
- Forma en -ing
- couching
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
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A bed without curtains, four armchairs, and a couch, covered with yellow Utrecht velvet, composed, with a prie-Dieu, all its furniture.
They read to Noirtier the formal copy of a will, in order to give him an idea of the terms in which such documents are generally couched; then, in order to test the capacity of the testator, the first notary said, turning towards him:
The man had hurt his leg, and was lying on the couch in a corner.
She had met Fernand at the corner of the Rue de la Loge; she had returned to the Catalans, and had despairingly cast herself on her couch.
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