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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

seek one's virtuous couch en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. To go to bed: to lie down to sleep.
    • After a while Dorla went out. She said she had to go home and let Ted know she was seeking her virtuous couch. 1956, Erle Stanley Gardner, chapter 14, in The Case of the Lucky Loser:
    • "If he does not love her," I murmured to myself, as I sought my virtuous couch, "she must love him[…]." c. 1891, Fergus Hume, chapter 13, in When I Lived in Bohemia:

Forms

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seeks one's virtuous couch Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
seeking one's virtuous couch Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
sought one's virtuous couch Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
sought one's virtuous couch Tense=Past lexicographic