Recline

Definition: Recline

Recline

Verb

1. Move the upper body backwards and down.

2. Lie in a comfortable resting position; "He was reposing on the couch".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "recline" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references)

Synonyms: Recline

Depression

Sit, sit down; couch, squat, crouch, stoop, bend, bow; courtesy, curtsy; bob, duck, dip, kneel; bend the knee, bow the knee, bend the head, bow the head; cower; recline; (be horizontal).

Horizontality

Verb: be horizontal; Adjective: lie, recline, couch; lie down, lie flat, lie prostrate; sprawl, loll, sit down.

Repose

Lie down; recline, recline on a bed of down, recline on an easy chair; go to rest, go to bed, go to sleep.

Support

Verb: be supported; lie on, sit on, recline on, lean on, loll on, rest on, stand on, step on, repose on, abut on, bear on, be based on; have at one's back; bestride, bestraddle.

Crosswords: Recline

Music

• Come Recline (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "recline": recline on ♦ recline on a couch ♦ recline upon. Additional references.

Afrikaans

lê (lie). (various references)

Albanian

vendos (arrange, be determined, Canton, choose, compose, conclude, dare, decide, determine, dispose, elect, elicit, emplace, establish, fix, house, induct, instal, install, instate, judge, lay, locate, make up one's mind, place, propose, put, quarter, resolve, rule, seat, set, settle, situate, station, Stow, take the plunge, will), vë shtrirë, shtrij (drape, elongate, expand, hold out, push, reach, roll, spread, spread on, stretch, unfold), shtrihem mbrapa, pjerrësohem, mbështetem tek (reckon), mbështetem (count on, depend, rely, repose, rest). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حنى للوراء, ‏تمدد (dilate, dilation, elongation, expansion, lie, sprawl, spread, stretch, stretching), ‏خفض (ax, axe, bear, bring down, cut, debase, deplete, depreciation, depress, dropping, lessen, lower, lowering, mark down, minimize, pull down, put down, rebate, retrench, scale down, shorten, sink, slake, slam, slash, step down, stitch down, subdue, turn down, whittle down), ‏إنحنى (bend, bend over, bent, bow, crouch, curve, dip, double up, droop, duck, hunch, incline, low bow, sag, stoop, tip), ‏إتكأ (lean, leant), ‏إستلقى (lie, lie back, lie down, sit back), ‏إضطجع (lie, lie down, repose). (various references)

Bulgarian 

облягам (lean, loll), опирам (lean, wash), накланям (rake, shear, tilt, tip), излягам се (loll, lounge). (various references)

Chinese 

趄 (hesitate, mark time), 斜倚 (Reclined, reclining), 橫臥 . (various references)

Czech

uložit se (ensconce oneself), spoléhat se (depend, presume), podpírat (bear, carry, hold up, support, sustain), odpoèívat (lave, lie, repose, rest), lehnout si (lie down, lie up). (various references)

Danish

ligge (be found, be located, be situated, find oneself, lie). (various references)

Dutch

liggen (be situated, lie). (various references)

Esperanto

kuŝi (lie). (various references)

Faeroese

liggja (lie). (various references)

Farsi 

لمیدن (Loll, Lounge), تکیه کردن (Lean), سرازیرکردن (Decant, Incline, Tip), خم شدن (Bow, Buckle, Decline, Lean, Lob, Sag, Stoop, Wilt), برپشت خم شدن یاخوابیدن . (various references)

Finnish

nojata (lean, support, sustain), maata (lie, sleep). (various references)

French

être couché. (various references)

Frisian

lizze (lay, lay down, lie, place, put, put down, to lie). (various references)

German

zurücklehnen (lean back), legen (bring down, fold, lay, lay down, lead, locate, place, placement, plant, put, put back, put down, put in, set, settle, site, siting, situate, to lay, to recline). (various references)

Greek 

μισοξαπλώνω, πλαγιάζω (lie down), ακουμβώ (lean), ανακλίνομαι. (various references)

Hebrew 

לשכב (lie, lie down, repose), ל�"שען אחור�", ל�"שען (lean, prop, rely, rest), ל�"שעין (lean, prop, rest), לסמוך (bank on, count on, depend, dweel in, lean upon, prop, reckon on, rely, support, trust). (various references)

Hungarian

fekszik (lain, lay, lie, stand, to be down, to couch, to lie, to pillow, to range, to recline, to repose, to take a nap). (various references)

Icelandic

liggja (lie). (various references)

Indonesian

menyandarkan, bersandar, berbaring (be in bed, be stretched out). (various references)

Italian

posare (alight, attitudinize, bottom, grandstand, land, lay, laying, place, pose, put, put aside, put by, put down, put on airs, rest, set, set down, sit, switch off, turn off), appoggiarsi (lean, purchase, rest), adagiarsi (lie down). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

踏�"反り�"る (to be arrogant, to get cocky, to lie on one's back with legs outstretched, to recline), 倚り懸かる (to lean against, to lean on, to recline on, to rely on), 凭り掛かる (to lean against, to lean on, to recline on, to rely on), 凭れ掛かる (to lean on, to recline on, to rely on), 凭れる (to lean against, to lean on, to lie heavy, to recline on), 凭 (lean on, lie heavy, recline on), 寄っ掛る (to lean against, to recline on), 寄っかかる (to lean against, to recline on), 寄り掛かる (to lean against, to lean on, to recline on, to rely on), 寄りかかる (to lean against, to lean on, to recline on, to rely on). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひょう (a council, bag counter, bale, ballot, chart, commentary, criticism, hail, label, lean on, leopard, lie heavy, list, panther, recline on, sack, sign, straw bag, table, threat, ticket), ふ�"ぞりかえる (to be arrogant, to get cocky, to lie on one's back with legs outstretched, to recline), もたれかかる (to lean on, to recline on, to rely on), もたれる (to lean against, to lean on, to lie heavy, to recline on), よっかかる (to lean against, to recline on), よりかかる (to lean against, to lean on, to recline on, to rely on), へい (3rd in rank, be in a row, equal, fence, get together, lean on, lie heavy, line up, rank with, recline on, rival, third sign of the Chinese calendar, wall). (various references)

Malay

baring ... berbaring (lie). (various references)

Manx

lieh-lhie (lean on, leaning, reclining). (various references)

Pig Latin

eclineray.(various references)

Polish

leżeć (lie). (various references)

Portuguese

repousar (doss, doze, lair, lean, lie, pillow, repose, rest, sleep), recostar, reclinar (lean, support, sustain), pender (depend, droop, fall, hang, impend, overhang, tilt), jazer (lie, rest), inclinar (cant, deflect, droop, fall, incline, prepossess, slanting, slope, tilt, tip), ficar (be, beseem, bide, come, continue, go, grow, keep, lie, remain, sojourn, stay, stay over, tarry, to get, to stay), estar situado, estar deitado. (various references)

Romanian

sprijini (abet, back, bear, bolster, boost, brace, buttress, carry, carry through, countenance, encourage, endorse, forward, ground, help, lean, line up behind, patronize, prop, rest, second, speed, sponsor, stay, strike a blow for, strut, superinduce, support, take up the cudgels for, uphold), se sprijini (abut, bear on, depend on, go on, go upon, hang, repose), se propti, se întinde (elongate, extend, lie down, make, range, reach, recoil, run, set off, spindle, sprawl, spread, stretch, sweep), culca (bed, couch, fell, lay, stretch), înclina (be inclined, bend, bias, bow, incline, incline to, lean against, prejudice, shelve, slant, slope, splay, stoop, tilt, yield). (various references)

Russian 

полулежать. (various references)

Scottish

laigh (lie, lie down, subside). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

popraviti (amend, chasten, correct, doctor, emend, fix, improve, mend, overhaul, recondition, redress, remedy, repair, straighten out), meliorisati. (various references)

Spanish

reclinar, estar tendido (lie, lie down). (various references)

Sranan

didon (lie). (various references)

Swedish

vila (abeyance, be in abeyance, lie, recumbency, repose, rest), luta sig bakåt. (various references)

Turkish

yatmak (bang, be couched, couch, go to bed, go to sleep, have a screw, hit the hay, hit the sack, incline, kip, kip down, lay, lay oneself down, lie, lie down, lie up, repose, repose oneself, rest, sleep with, turn in), yaslanmak (lean, repose, repose on, rest, rest against, sit back), uzanmak (be couched, be ranging to the, grasp at, hand up, kip, kip down, lie, lie down, loll, lounge, outstretch, range, reach, reach forth, reach out, reach out for, repose oneself, rest, run, run along, skirt along, snatch at, sprawl, spread), dayamak (base on, base upon, lean against, ply, ply with, prop, prop up, recline on, recline upon, rest, support), birbirine dayamak, arkaya yatmak. (various references)

Turkmen 

sьяnmek (oblong, stretch out). (various references)

Ukrainian

укладати горизонтально, відкидатися назад, покладатися (build on, confide, depend, reckon, rely, trust). (various references)

Welsh

lled-orwedd (loll, lounge), gorwedd (lie). (various references)

cuba, cubant, cubas, cubat, cubate, cubavit, cubes, cubiti, cubitis, cubito, cubitorum, cubitos, cubitu, cubitum, cubitus, decumbebat, recubitus, recumbit, subcubuerit. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "recline": reclined, recliner, recliners, reclines. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Recline" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ecline, Ercolani, raccine, Raceline, Rachlin, Realien, reblingen, recile, reclin, recling, recoin, relink, replane, replien, rescine, Rockline, sexclone. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ceiler, crenel, lierne, reline.

-2 letters: cline, creel, liner, nicer, niece, relic.

-3 letters: ceil, cere, cine, cire, erne, leer, lice, lien, lier, line, lire, nice, reel, rein, rice, riel, rile.

-4 letters: cee, cel, eel, ere, ern, ice, ire, lee, lei, lie, lin, nee, nil, rec, ree, rei, rin.

-5 letters: el, en, er, in, li, ne, re.

+1 letter: bernicle, creeling, decliner, encircle, licencer, licenser, penciler, reclined, recliner, reclines, reliance, silencer, vernicle.

+2 letters: arecoline, bernicles, centriole, cleanlier, clinkered, creneling, decliners, encircled, encircles, glycerine, intercell, interlace, larcenies, lechering, licencers, licensers, licensure, pencilers, percaline, princelet, recliners, reconcile, reliances, relicense, schlieren, silencers, sincerely, stenciler, ventricle, vernicles, virulence.

+3 letters: allergenic, arecolines, cantilever, centerline, centiliter, centralise, centralize, centrioles, ceremonial, chandelier, clinometer, clowneries, credential, crenelling, cylindered, electroing, electronic, epicentral, glycerines, incredible, insecurely, interlaced, interlaces, licensures, linebacker, linecaster, mercantile, percalines, percentile, pincerlike, prelecting, prelection, princelets, princelier, recanalize, recleaning, recolonize, reconciled, reconciler, reconciles, reelecting, reelection, reflecting, reflection, relicensed, relicenses, resilience, resiliency, reticently, silkscreen, stencilers, stenciller, trancelike, ventricles, virulences.