bench
Pronunciation
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- (countable) A bench is a long, hard seat for more than one person.
- (countable) The bench is the place where players of a sport sit when they are not playing.
- He watched the first 3 games from the bench.
Verb
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- (transitive) If a coach benches a player, they take the player out of a game.
- They benched him for the rest of the game because they thought he was hurt.
- (transitive) If you bench a weight, you lift it over your chest, lying on your back, on a bench.
- I heard he can bench 150 pounds.