reclining
Adjective
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Adjective
reclining (not comparable)
- Capable of being reclined, or moved into a more horizontal position.
- a reclining armchair
- (botany) Bending away from the perpendicular; recumbent.
- present participle of recline#English|recline
reclining (plural reclinings)
- 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.
- 1865, Edward Dutton Cook, Sir Felix Foy, Bart. (page 233)
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