couch
verb/kaʊtʃ/
/kaʊtʃ/
[usually passive] (formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they couch | /kaʊtʃ/ /kaʊtʃ/ |
| he / she / it couches | /ˈkaʊtʃɪz/ /ˈkaʊtʃɪz/ |
| past simple couched | /kaʊtʃt/ /kaʊtʃt/ |
| past participle couched | /kaʊtʃt/ /kaʊtʃt/ |
| -ing form couching | /ˈkaʊtʃɪŋ/ /ˈkaʊtʃɪŋ/ |
- to say or write words in a particular style or manner
- be couched (in something) The letter was deliberately couched in very vague terms.
Word OriginMiddle English (as a noun denoting something to sleep on; as a verb in the sense ‘lay something down’): from Old French couche (noun), coucher (verb), from Latin collocare ‘place together’, from col- ‘together’ + locare ‘to place’.
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