couch
(kaʊtʃ )
Word forms: couches , couching , couched
1. countable noun B2
A couch is a long, comfortable seat for two or three people.
2. countable noun
A couch is a narrow bed which patients lie on while they are being examined or treated by a doctor.
3. verb [usually passive]
If a statement is couched in a particular style of language, it is expressed in that style of language. [written]
The new centre-right government's radical objectives are often couched in moderate terms. [be V-ed + in/as]
This time the proposal was couched as an ultimatum. [be V-ed in/as n]
Synonyms: express, word, frame, phrase
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Idioms:
a couch potato
a person who spends most of their time sitting around watching television
In fact, we sit, like a pair of couch potatoes in front of television, and watch her eat.
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Collocations:
couch cushion leather couch living room couch velvet couch
It's not like we are spending our days looking under couch cushions for the elusive revenue model.
Times, Sunday Times
At one point in the series his primary source of food was eating the couch cushions.
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To find his rent money, he usually looks under couch cushions or gathers change that drops out of people's pockets.
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The possessions are owned by the collective, right down to the couch cushions.
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He refills their glasses, the leather couch creaking as he moves close.
Times, Sunday Times
That manky leather couch has certainly seen better days.
The Sun
Holy s***, there's a leather couch.
Times, Sunday Times
The chalet has double-sized windows, leather couches and bold colours.
Times, Sunday Times
Perhaps, this time next year, we will be able to pick up good-looking, inexpensive leather couches with our paint and tiles.
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Then once we arrived at home, we would have to carry her into the house and sit her down on the living room couch.
Christianity Today
The living room couch and the floor were covered with it.
canada.com
Cops found her body crouched behind a living room couch.
The Sun
She once reupholstered my living room couch.
Houston Chronicle
During the day, she likes to watch all the daytime talk shows, sitting on the living room couch, and eating copious amounts of bonbons (without ever gaining weight).
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The supermodel, 35, looked sensational as she nestled on a velvet couch in a flowing white evening gown, with her hair sleeked back.
The Sun
We go upstairs to a quiet spot with a velvet couch and a floor tapestry.
Times, Sunday Times
We have a room off the dining room with two velvet couches in it.
Times, Sunday Times
Think velvet couches, floral wallpaper and taxidermied toucans.
The Sun
She ushers me up a flight of stairs into a light-filled drawing room: two sash windows, walls lined with books, rococo velvet couches with silk cushions, a faded rug.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 长沙发
Japanese: カウチソファー