recline
/ɹɪˈklaɪn/
recline verb: to cause to lean back; to bend back.
Verb
recline (third-person singular simple present reclines, present participle reclining, simple past and past participle reclined)
- To cause to lean back; to bend back.
- To put in a resting position.
- She reclined her arms on the table and sighed.
- The mother, lovely tho' with grief oppreſt, / Reclin'd his dying head upon her breaſt.a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “On the Death of Amyntas. A Pastoral Elegy.”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume II, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published...
- To lean back.
- to recline against a wall
- To put oneself in a resting position.
- to recline on a couch
Noun
recline (plural reclines)
- A mechanism for lowering the back of a seat to support a less upright position; Also, the action of lowering the back using such a mechanism.
- To gain a little more space, airlines are turning to a new generation of seats that use lighter materials and less padding, moving the magazine pocket above the tray table and even reducing or eliminating the recline in seats.2013 December 22, Jad Mouawad, Martha C. White, New York Times, retrieved 23 Dec 2013
recline meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
recline in Tamil
- to recline, lie down
- சாய் cāy
recline in Urdu
- بیٹھنا, جھکنا, تکیہ لگانا
recline in Bengali
- হেলান দেওয়া, শুয়ে পড়া
recline in Malayalam
- മലർന്നുകിടക്കുക, ചാരിക്കിടക്കുക, പിന്നോട്ടു വളയ്ക്കുക
More languagesFewer languages
- recline in Kannada
- ಮಲಗು malagu
- recline in Sanskrit
- श्रयति śrayati
- recline in Persian
- بر پشت دراز کشیدن
Examples of recline in a sentence
- Jim closed his eyes and reclined back in his chair.
- She gave up and positioned herself on the reclining pool chair.
- What are couples up to when one reclines on the stones and is ridden by the other?
Forms of recline
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | reclines |
| present participle | reclining |
| past participle | reclined |
| past | reclined |
| second-person singular present (archaic) | reclinest |
| second-person singular past (archaic) | reclinedst |
| third-person singular present (archaic) | reclineth |
| Noun | |
| plural | reclines |
Origin of recline
Borrowed from Latin reclīnāre (“to bend back”). Compare decline, incline.
Words formed from recline
Words that rhyme with recline
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- design
- divine
- combine
- pine
- spline
- swine
- consign
- frankenstein
- nine
- refine
- vine
- whine
- benign
- chine
- in line
- intertwine
- resign
- rine
- undermine
- wine
- affine
- anodyne
- dine
- gold mine
- incline
- malign
- opine
- outshine
- propine
- red line
- shrine
- syne
- tine
- trunk line
- tyne
- atrine
- berine
- bine
- brine
- cline
- confine
- disentwine
- einstein
- equine
- offline
- quine
- repine
- rhine
Questions about recline
- What does recline mean?
- Recline means to cause to lean back; to bend back.
- What is recline in Tamil?
- Recline in Tamil is சாய் (cāy). See Recline meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is recline?
- Recline can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce recline?
- Recline is pronounced /ɹɪˈklaɪn/.
- What is the past tense of recline?
- The past tense of recline is reclined.
Words near recline in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: recline (page history and authors); சாய் (Tamil) (page history and authors); recline (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); recline (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); recline (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ಮಲಗು (Kannada) (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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