couch

couch is a 5-letter English word with 19 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To lay upon a bed or other resting place. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 19 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To lay upon a bed or other resting place.
2. transitive verb. To arrange or dispose as in a bed; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun.
3. transitive verb. To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.
4. transitive verb. To transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire cloth mold to a felt blanket, for further drying.
5. transitive verb. To conceal; to include or involve darkly.
6. transitive verb. To arrange; to place; to inlay.
7. transitive verb. To put into some form of language; to express; to phrase; -- used with in and under.
8. transitive verb. To treat by pushing down or displacing the opaque lens with a needle; as, to couch a cataract.
9. intransitive verb. To lie down or recline, as on a bed or other place of rest; to repose; to lie.
10. intransitive verb. To lie down for concealment; to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly.
11. intransitive verb. To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.
12. transitive verb. A bed or place for repose or sleep; particularly, in the United States, a lounge.
13. transitive verb. Any place for repose, as the lair of a beast, etc.
14. transitive verb. A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley; as, couch of malt.
15. transitive verb. A preliminary layer, as of color, size, etc.
16. noun. a narrow bed on which a patient lies during psychiatric or psychoanalytic treatment
17. noun. a flat coat of paint or varnish used by artists as a primer
18. noun. an upholstered seat for more than one person

    Synonyms: lounge, sofa

19. verb. formulate in a particular style or language

    "I wouldn't put it that way"

    "She cast her request in very polite language"

    Synonyms: cast, frame, put, redact

Synonyms

lounge, sofa, cast, frame, put, redact

Common word forms

couched, coucher, couches, couching

Words from these letters

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