| 单词 | recline |
| 释义 | recline (once / 1156 pages) v When you recline, you lounge or lean back. It isn't safe to recline while you're driving a car. However, it's perfectly safe to recline on your couch while you watch TV. When you lie back in your hammock, you recline, and when you tilt your airplane seat into the lap of the person sitting behind you, you recline it. You might even have a special chair that reclines when you lean back in it, magically providing you with a footrest — it's called a recliner. Recline, from the Latin reclinare, "to bend back," shares a Proto-Indo-European root with lean. WORD FAMILYrecline: reclined, recliner, reclines, reclining+/recliner: recliners/reclining: reclinings USAGE EXAMPLESMore than once, Crystal found one reclining on the couch backward, legs climbing up the wood paneling like vines, talking to Carmen’s portrait. Washington Times(Dec 24, 2016) As I was working and reclining, I felt myself de-stressing, and starting to appreciate the season. Slate(Dec 23, 2016) “We recline on our own satin and ebony.” Time(Dec 20, 2016) 1v move the upper body backwards and down Syn|Hypo|Hyper lean back fall back fall backwards and down angle, lean, slant, tilt, tip to incline or bend from a vertical position 2v lean in a comfortable resting position Syn|Hypo|Hyper recumb, repose rest be at rest catch some Z's, kip, log Z's, sleep, slumberbe asleep drowsebe on the verge of sleeping lie be lying, be prostrate; be in a horizontal position 3v cause to recline She reclined her head on the pillow Syn|Hyper recumb, repose lean in a comfortable resting position lay, place, pose, position, put, set put into a certain place or abstract location |
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