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.
   • 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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “recule”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Curlee, cerule

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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

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Spanish

Verb

recule

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