recline
See also: recliné
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin reclīnāre (“to bend back”). Confer decline, incline.
Pronunciation
Verb
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.
- a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “On the Death of Amyntas. A Pastoral Elegy.”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume II, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, →OCLC, page 249:
- The mother, lovely tho' with grief oppreſt, / Reclin'd his dying head upon her breaſt.
- (intransitive) To lean back.
- to recline against a wall
- (intransitive) To put oneself in a resting position.
- to recline on a couch
Conjugation
Conjugation of recline
| infinitive | (to) recline | ||
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| present tense | past tense | ||
| 1st-person singular | recline | reclined | |
| 2nd-person singular | recline, reclinest† | reclined, reclinedst† | |
| 3rd-person singular | reclines, reclineth† | reclined | |
| plural | recline | ||
| subjunctive | recline | reclined | |
| imperative | recline | — | |
| participles | reclining | reclined | |
Translations
to cause to lean back; to bend back
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to put in a resting position
to lean back
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to put oneself in a resting position
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See also
Noun
recline (plural reclines)
- A mechanism for lowering the back of a seat to support a less upright position; Also, the action of lowering the back using such a mechanism.
- 2013 Dec. 22, Jad Mouawad and Martha C. White, "[1]," New York Times (retrieved 23 December 2013):
- To gain a little more space, airlines are turning to a new generation of seats that use lighter materials and less padding, moving the magazine pocket above the tray table and even reducing or eliminating the recline in seats.
- 2013 Dec. 22, Jad Mouawad and Martha C. White, "[1]," New York Times (retrieved 23 December 2013):
Spanish
Verb
recline
- inflection of reclinar:
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