recouch

verb — 2 senses

recouch

verb

Etymology From re- + couch: compare French recoucher.

1

To rephrase.

to recouch an idea in Freudian terms

2

Obsolete To retire again to a couch; to lie down again.

Then Lions Whelps lie roaring for their Prey, And at thy powerful Hand demand their Food; Who when at Morn they all recouch again, Then toyling Man till Eve pursues his pain.1651, Henry Wotton, A Translation of the CIV. Psalm to the Original Sense:

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