to lounge
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2.7
- verb
- /laʊndʒ/
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- You can lounge around here on her sofa.
- lounge around
I mean, like I'm if I'm lounging, this could work.
- I mean, like I'm if I'm lounging, this could work.
- No, look, look, you know, in fact, most past presidents just lounge around in their coffins all day.
- I should be in my pool naked and then lounging next to it.
Examples
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Fortunately, we had water and could lounge in the kiddy pool and play in the sprinkler.
Blog text (27) -
Once settled, they lounge in the sunlight for hours, which sometimes dissolves into days.
Academic text (2003) -
You two kids can lounge by the pool while I fix us up with a couple of rooms.
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I'd lounge about in my home
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Why lounge around when you can scrounge around for some nuts on the ground?
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I don't intend to lounge around living off the fat of the land.
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I just spent three hours scrolling through social media while I was lounging on the couch watching something on Netflix.
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Later, back in the motel room, we lounge in front of the TV, cracking and eating paper-shell pecans.
Fiction book (1995) -
Barb was suddenly domestic, settled, pleased to lounge on the sofa drinking hot chocolate and playing Scrabble with her mother.
Fiction book (1995) -
You can lounge around here on her sofa.
Synonyms
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1.0
To rest flat on a surface
350
1.1
To spend time sitting and doing very little without a clear purpose
87
2.7
To lean back and relax while you watch
11
3.2
To lean or lie back in a comfortable position
7
6.2
To spend time doing little or nothing instead of working
7
4.3
To spend time relaxing and doing very little
5
3.8
To relax and do very little
4
4.0
To relax comfortably and spend time lazily in a chair or on a sofa
1
3.4
To spend time lazily doing little or nothing
1
8.9
To relax and do nothing while sitting or lying on a couch
Antonyms
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
3
3.3
A bar in a hotel or restaurant that serves mixed drinks in a relaxed, stylish place
1
3.0
A seating area in an airport where passengers wait before boarding their flight
How Relaxed
Surface Forms
Etymology
Lounge probably comes from old words that meant 'to be weak or tired', the same idea behind the English word languish. So to lounge is to sit or lie in a relaxed, lazy way.