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   recline

   /rɪˈklʌɪn/

   verb

   • 1. lean or lie back in a relaxed position with the back supported: "she was reclining in a deckchair"
   • ▪ (of a seat) be able to have the back moved into a sloping position: "all the seats recline"
   • ▪ move the back of (a seat) into a sloping position: "he tried to recline his seat"

   Word Origin late Middle English (in the sense ‘cause to lean back’): from Old French recliner or Latin reclinare ‘bend back, recline’, from re- ‘back’ + clinare ‘to bend’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. reclinable adjective

   Scrabble Points: 9

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