recule

See also: reculé

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈkjuːl/

Verb

recule (third-person singular simple present recules, present participle reculing, simple past and past participle reculed)

1. (obsolete) To recoil or retreat; to draw back.
   • 1525, Jean Froissart, translated by Sir John Bourchier, The Chronicle of Froissart - Volume 3, page 374:

     The Flemmynges began to be abasshed and to be discomfyted, and began to recule backe, and to fall one upon another.

   • 1546, Great Britain. Record Commission, State Papers: pt. III. Correspondence between the governments of England and Ireland, 1515-1546, page 250:

     Then being in Auguste, he came and campid his hole hooste in an ylande in the water of Barrowe, and dayly wolde come into the bordures of thErle of Ossories cuntrey, and sawe moche people dayly in ordre of battaile, and then would recule to their campe.

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     And forced them, however strong and stout
     They were, as well approv'd in many a doubt,
     Backe to recule

Anagrams

• Curlee, cerule

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.kyl/

Verb

recule

1. inflection of reculer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• éculer, ulcère, ulcéré

Spanish

Verb

recule

1. inflection of recular:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative