recline

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See also: recliné

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin reclīnāre (“to bend back”). Compare decline, incline.

Pronunciation

Verb

recline (third-person singular simple present reclines, present participle reclining, simple past and past participle reclined)

  1. (transitive) To cause to lean back; to bend back.
  2. (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 and R Tonson, , published 1760, →OCLC, page 249:
      The mother, lovely tho' with grief oppreſt, / Reclin'd his dying head upon her breaſt.
  3. (intransitive) To lean back.
    to recline against a wall
  4. (intransitive) To put oneself in a resting position.
    to recline on a couch

Conjugation

Conjugation of recline
infinitive (to) recline
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

†Archaic or obsolete.

Translations

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Noun

recline (plural reclines)

  1. 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 December 22, Jad Mouawad, Martha C. White, 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.

Latin

Pronunciation

Adjective

reclīne

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of reclīnis

Portuguese

Verb

recline

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

Spanish

Verb

recline

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