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recline

See also: recliné

English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Verb

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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[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.
  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

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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.

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Noun

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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

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Adjective

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reclīne

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of reclīnis

Portuguese

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Verb

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recline

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

Spanish

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Verb

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recline

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