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# recline

«recline» in Mova's school dictionary: **To lean or lie back in a relaxed way, often resting on…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (reclines, reclined, reclining)

### meaning for a pupil

To lean or lie back in a relaxed way, often resting on something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recline/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, a person or animal lying down comfortably on grass, a bed or cushions

### examples

- Grandad likes to recline in his armchair after lunch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recline/#x1)
- The cat reclined on the warm rug. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recline/#x2)
- She reclined against a pile of cushions and read. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recline/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### In the corpora

- [Let now a little water be fetched, and wash your feet, and recline yourselves under the tree.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.444/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «recline» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recline/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.