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leant towards

leant towards is the simple past and past participle of lean towards.

Meaning of lean towards

Verb

lean towards (third-person singular simple present leans towards, present participle leaning towards, simple past and past participle leaned towards or leant towards)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lean, towards.
  2. (transitive) To favor in a decision.

Questions about leant towards

What is leant towards the simple past and past participle of?
Leant towards is the simple past and past participle of lean towards.

Words near leant towards in the dictionary

  1. leant
  2. leant in
  3. leant into
  4. leant on
  5. leant over backwards
  6. leant towards
  7. leanto
  8. leantos
  9. leany
  10. Leaotung
  11. leap

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Adapted from Wiktionary: leant towards (page history and authors); lean towards (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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