recline
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Recline on a daybed with an old book, and forget which decade it is.
From The Guardian • Jul. 5, 2015
The Recline and Fall of Western Civilization Tilting your seat back on an airplane is pure evil.
From Slate • Feb. 19, 2013
Stranger! awhile upon this mossy bank Recline thee.
From Poems by Southey, Robert
Much better could I at my palace door Recline and hear the distant cannons roar.
From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) by Freneau, Philip
Recline, rē-klīn′, v.t. to lean or bend backwards: to lean to or on one side.—v.i. to lean: to rest or repose.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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