recline

See also: recliné

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin reclīnāre (“to bend back”). Confer decline, incline.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈklaɪn/, /ɹəˈklaɪn/
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Rhymes: -aɪn

Verb

recline (third-person singular simple present reclines, present participle reclining, simple past and past participle reclined)

(transitive) To cause to lean back; to bend back.
(transitive) To put in a resting position.
She reclined her arms on the table and sighed.
- 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 1760, OCLC 863244003, page 249:
  The mother, lovely tho' with grief oppreſt, / Reclin'd his dying head upon her breaſt.
(intransitive) To lean back.
to recline against a wall
(intransitive) To put oneself in a resting position.
to recline on a couch

Conjugation

Conjugation of recline

infinitive	(to) recline
	present tense	past tense
1st-person singular	recline	reclined
2nd-person singular	recline, reclinest^†	reclined, reclinedst^†
3rd-person singular	reclines, reclineth^†	reclined
plural	recline	reclined

subjunctive	recline	reclined

imperative	recline	—

participles	reclining	reclined

^†Archaic or obsolete.

Translations

to cause to lean back; to bend back

Bulgarian: облягам (obljagam)
Finnish: panna nojalleen
Galician: reclinar
German: zurücklehnen (de)
Persian: بر پشت دراز کشیدن‎
Portuguese: reclinar
Russian: отки́дывать (ru) impf (otkídyvatʹ), отки́нуть (ru) pf (otkínutʹ) (наза́д)
Tibetan: བཀྱེད (bkyed)

to put in a resting position

Bulgarian: облягам (obljagam)
Finnish: panna (fi), asettaa (fi)
German: hinlegen (de)
Portuguese: apoiar (pt)
Russian: укла́дывать (ru) impf (ukládyvatʹ), уложи́ть (ru) pf (uložítʹ)
Sanskrit: श्रयति (sa) (śrayati)
Tibetan: གཞོགས་སྙེས་རྒྱག (gzhogs snyes rgyag)

to lean back

Bulgarian: опирам се (opiram se), облягам се (obljagam se)
Finnish: nojautua (fi)
German: anlehnen (de)
Latin: reclīnō
Portuguese: reclinar
Russian: отки́дываться (ru) impf (otkídyvatʹsja), отки́нуться (ru) pf (otkínutʹsja) (наза́д, на спи́нку кре́сла)
Tibetan: སྙེས (snyes)

to put oneself in a resting position

Bulgarian: излягам се (izljagam se)
Finnish: käydä pitkäkseen
Hebrew: הֵסֵב‎ (he) (hesev)
Maori: tīpapa, noho (mi)
Portuguese: deitar (pt)
Rapa Nui: moe
Russian: полулежа́ть (ru) (poluležátʹ), сиде́ть отки́нувшись (sidétʹ otkínuvšisʹ)
Tibetan: གན་རྐྱལ་ཉལ (gan rkyal nyal)

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Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} kuŝi (eo)
Spanish: ^{(please verify)} reclinarse (es)

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.
- 2013 Dec. 22, Jad Mouawad and Martha C. White, "," New York Times (retrieved 23 December 2013):
  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.

Spanish

Verb

recline

inflection of reclinar:
1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2. third-person singular imperative