lounge
verb/laʊndʒ/
/laʊndʒ/
[intransitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they lounge | /laʊndʒ/ /laʊndʒ/ |
| he / she / it lounges | /ˈlaʊndʒɪz/ /ˈlaʊndʒɪz/ |
| past simple lounged | /laʊndʒd/ /laʊndʒd/ |
| past participle lounged | /laʊndʒd/ /laʊndʒd/ |
| -ing form lounging | /ˈlaʊndʒɪŋ/ /ˈlaʊndʒɪŋ/ |
- (+ adv./prep.) to stand, sit or lie in a lazy way synonym laze
- Several students were lounging around, staring at their phones.
Word Originearly 16th cent. (in the sense ‘move lazily’): perhaps symbolic of slow movement. Senses 1 to 3 of the noun date from the late 19th cent.Want to learn more?
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