A long seat with or without a back, found for example in parks and schools.
They sat on a park bench and tossed bread crumbs to the ducks and pigeons.
The seat where the judges sit in court.
They are awaiting a decision on the motion from the bench.
The weight one is able to bench press, especially the maximum weight capable of being pressed.
He became frustrated when his bench increased by only 10 pounds despite a month of training.
To remove a player from play.
They benched him for the rest of the game because they thought he was injured.
A language spoken in Ethiopia
The people who speak the Bench language
A surname.
From Middle English bench, benk, bynk, from Old English benċ (“bench”), from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-. Cognate with Scots benk...
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To lift by bench pressing
I heard he can bench 150 pounds.