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[ lent ] / lɛnt / SEE SYNONYMS FOR leant ON THESAURUS.COM
verb Chiefly British.a past participle and simple past tense of lean1. Words nearby leantleangle, leaning, Leaning Tower of Pisa, lean on, lean over backwards, leant, lean-to, leap, leap day, leapfrog, leapfrog test Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for leantIt has now leant its name to a shadowy cabal known within the German meat-processing industry as the Atlantic group. Germany’s Sausage Cartel is the Wurst|Nico Hines|July 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST Almost 50 nations signed on to the so-called “coalition of the willing” and leant at least some small degree of support. The Coalition of the Unwilling|Christopher Dickey|September 7, 2013|DAILY BEAST While many of these may have allowed Salt to blend in, they also leant a certain fashion cred to her style. Salt's Spy Style|Stephanie LaCava|July 23, 2010|DAILY BEAST The Biennale is always quite intense and feverish, but that heat leant an extra intensity, leant a few extra degrees to the fever. The Ghost of Biennales Past|Taylor Antrim|June 2, 2009|DAILY BEAST
No one else leant over her, and whispered soothing words to her, or was near enough to hear the flutter of her beating heart. Dombey and Son|Charles Dickens Her shoulders touched him; sometimes she leant against him with a gentle pressure. The Kingdom Round the Corner|Coningsby Dawson He groaned suddenly and leant forward, supporting his invisible head on invisible hands. The Invisible Man|H. G. Wells I leant up as one of a tripod of three of us, my face towards the burning city. Bullets & Billets|Bruce Bairnsfather The silent, hard-faced Hans leant forward and stared up the darkling water, his hand behind his ear.
British Dictionary definitions for leant
verba past tense and past participle of lean 1 Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to leantincline, veer, drift, nod, tilt, recline, tip, slant, prop, twist, bow, cock, prefer, tend, slope, curve, pitch, sag, rest, cant |