recline
Americanverb (used without object)
verb (used with object)
verb
Other Word Forms
- half-reclined adjective
- half-reclining adjective
- reclinable adjective
- reclination noun
- unreclined adjective
- unreclining adjective
Etymology
Origin of recline
1375–1425; late Middle English reclinen < Latin reclīnāre, equivalent to re- re- + clīnāre to lean 1
Example Sentences
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A third undated snap shows the former US president reclining in a hot tub beside someone whose face is blacked out to protect their identity.
From BBC
After a few minutes of standing ankle deep in the wet grass, looking at the egg, and listening to the peepers, he pulled one of his mother's reclining lawn chairs over to the towel.
From Literature
Covered in fractal patterns like “the symmetrical innards of a halved cabbage,” the giant humanoid insect reclines, “a god-sized man sleeping atop the quilt of the land.”
Another Cambridge mathematician, Alan Turing, reclines in a chair with his feet up on a wooden table, staring at the ceiling.
From Literature
Eric Tung, a single dad and small-business owner in Los Angeles, dropped off his son at volleyball practice recently, reclined his seat and settled into Instagram.
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