reclining
Adjective

reclining (not comparable)

  1. Capable of being reclined, or moved into a more horizontal position.
    a reclining armchair
  2. (botany) Bending away from the perpendicular; recumbent.
Verb
  1. present participle of recline#English|recline
Noun

reclining (plural reclinings)

  1. The act of one who reclines.
    • 1865, Edward Dutton Cook, Sir Felix Foy, Bart. (page 233)
      Mr. Disbrowe was reclining on a well-worn horsehair-covered sofa, his frequent reclinings on which piece of furniture had stamped a deep and quite ineffaceable impression of his weighty form upon the cushion.



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