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Definitions
lean in a comfortable resting position
Word origin
Borrowed from Latin reclīnāre (“to bend back”). Compare decline, incline.
Used in a sentence
“She reclined her arms on the table and sighed.”
“The mother, lovely tho' with grief oppreſt, / Reclin'd his dying head upon her breaſt.”
“to recline against a wall”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Lean back”7 letters
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