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reclining

noun

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Wiktionary

adj

  1. Capable of being reclined, or moved into a more horizontal position.

    a reclining armchair

  2. Bending away from the perpendicular; recumbent.

noun

  1. The act of one who reclines.

    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.

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of recline