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accumbent

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9 lettersPronunciation /əˈkʌm.bənt/Part of speech adjectiveSorted abccemntuStarts with AEnds with T0 clues
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Definitions

  1. lying down; in a position of comfort or rest

Word origin

From Latin accumbō (“recline”), from ad- (“to”) + *cumbō (“recline”).

Used in a sentence

  • Together his accumbent pose and closed eyes denoted sleep, as an alternative to death, which the stiff, recumbent pose of previous effigies had embodied.
  • What a pennance must be done by every accumbent, in sitting out the passage through all these dishes; what a task the stomach must be put to in the concoction of so many mixtures.
  • Let us, indeed, see how the point of view has changed which was held in regard to those cultivated and glib accumbents who in former days were taken for real social workers.

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