Word.ws English Dictionary

recumbing

recumbing is the present participle and gerund of recumb.

Meaning of recumb

Verb

recumb (third-person singular simple present recumbs, present participle recumbing, simple past and past participle recumbed)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To lean; to recline; to repose.
    • Of a faith, which consists in lolling, rolling, and recumbing upon ChristJuly 19 1761, John Allen, No Acceptance with God by Faith only (sermon)

Questions about recumbing

What is recumbing the present participle and gerund of?
Recumbing is the present participle and gerund of recumb.

Words near recumbing in the dictionary

  1. recumbent bicycles
  2. recumbent stone circle
  3. recumbent stone circles
  4. recumbently
  5. recumbents
  6. recumbing
  7. recumbirostran
  8. recumbirostrans
  9. recumbs
  10. recup
  11. recupe

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: recumbing (page history and authors); recumb (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “recumbing.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/recumbing. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.