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(verb) rely on for support; "We can lean on this man" |
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Related Words: bank, rely, swear, trust |
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(verb) cause to lean or incline; "He leaned his rifle against the wall" |
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Related Words: lay, place, pose, position, put, set |
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(verb) to incline or bend from a vertical position: "She leaned over the banister." |
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Synonyms: angle, slant, tilt, tip |
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Related Words: bend, flex, incline, lean back, pitch, recline, slope, weather |
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(satellite adjective) not profitable or prosperous; "a lean year" |
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(adjective) lacking in mineral content or combustible material; "lean ore"; "lean fuel" |
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Antonyms: rich |
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(satellite adjective) (metallurgy) low in mineral content; "a lean ore" |
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(satellite adjective) containing little excess; "a lean budget"; "a skimpy allowance" |
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Synonyms: skimpy |
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(adjective) lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare |
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Synonyms: thin |
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(verb) exhibit an inclination or tendency |
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Synonyms: incline, tend |
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Related Words: believe, conceive, consider, take kindly to, think |
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(verb) have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined; "She tends to be nervous before her lectures" |
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Synonyms: incline, run, tend |
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Related Words: be, gravitate |
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(noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical; "the tower had a pronounced tilt"; "the ship developed a list to starboard"; "he walked with a heavy inclination to the right" |
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Synonyms: inclination, leaning, list, tilt |
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Related Words: position, spatial relation |
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