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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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To incline or bend from a vertical position She leaned over the banister |
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Cause to lean or incline He leaned his rifle against the wall |
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Have a tendency or disposition to do or be something Be inclined She tends to be nervous before her lectures These dresses run small He inclined to corpulence |
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Rely on for support We can lean on this man |
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Cause to lean to the side Erosion listed the old tree |
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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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Lacking in mineral content or combustible material Lean ore Lean fuel |
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Containing little excess A lean budget A skimpy allowance |
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Not profitable or prosperous A lean year |
| adj | thin, anorexic, anorectic, bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted, deep-eyed, hollow-eyed, sunken-eyed, fine-drawn, gangling, gangly, lanky, lank, spindly, rawboned, reedy, reedlike, twiggy, twiglike, scarecrowish, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy, shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened, slender, slight, slim, slender-waisted, slim-waisted, wasp-waisted, spare, trim, spindle-legged, spindle-shanked, stringy, wiry, wisplike, wispy, ectomorphic, thin |
| adj | lean |
| adj | skimpy, insufficient, deficient |
| adj | insufficient, deficient |
| adj | unprofitable |
| noun | tilt, list, inclination, leaning, position, spatial relation
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| verb | tilt, tip, slant, angle, bend, flex, lean against, lean on
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| verb | put, set, place, pose, position, lay |
| verb | tend, be given, incline, run, be |
| verb | trust, swear, rely, bank |
| verb | list, move |