recline
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Latin reclinare, "to bend back". Confer "decline", "incline".
Verb [edit]
recline (third-person singular simple present reclines, present participle reclining, simple past and past participle reclined)
- (transitive) To cause to lean back; to bend back.
- (transitive) To put in a resting position.
- She reclined her arms on the table and sighed.
- Dryden
- The mother / Reclined her dying head upon his breast.
- (intransitive) To lean back.
- to recline against a wall
- (intransitive) To put oneself in a resting position.
- to recline on a couch
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Translations [edit]
to cause to lean back; to bend back
to put in a resting position
to lean back
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to put one's self in a resting position
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Spanish [edit]
Verb [edit]
recline (infinitive reclinar)
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of reclinar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of reclinar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of reclinar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of reclinar.
