1 [V] ~ (against / in / on sth) (formal) to sit or lie in a relaxed way, with your body leaning backwards:
She was reclining on a sofa. * a reclining figure (for example in a painting)
2 when a seat reclines or when you recline a seat, the back of it moves into a comfortable sloping position:
[V] a reclining chair / seat [also VN]
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for recline is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is recline a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, recline is tagged as verb.
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