Word Finder - leant

definition

To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.

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She leaned out of the window.

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To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with to, toward, etc.

example

I’m leaning towards voting Conservative in the next election.  The Hispanic vote leans Democratic.

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Followed by against, on, or upon: to rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc.

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To hang outwards.

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To press against.

In practice, he leant constantly towards laxity.

The Jacobins leant on the revolutionary commune and the mob of Paris; the Girondins leant on the thriving burghers of the provincial cities.

This weak king leant for support upon the nobles of Burgundy and Austrasia, impatient as they were of obedience to a woman and the representative of Rome.

As she leant hopelessly against a wall, it miraculously fell inwards to make a niche for her.

His empire is thus quite different in character from the Parthian kingdom of the Arsacids, which had no national and religious basis but leant towards Hellenism, and whose organization had always been very loose.

Ferrell has also leant his voice to a number of animated shows, including The Oblongs, Cow and Chicken, Family Guy, King of the Hill and Fifteen Minutes of Shame.

Since then he's leant his voice to several animated series' including Oswald and Family Guy.

The kings of the East leant more than ever upon Greek mercenaries, whose superiority to barbarian levies was sensibly brought home to them by the expedition of Cyrus.

From 1749 to 1757 the party of religious devotees grouped round the queen and the kings daughters, with the dauphin as cluef and the comte D,Argenson and Machault dArnouville, keeper of the seals, as lieutenants, had worked against Madame de Pompadour (who leant for supporl upon the parlements, the jansenists and the philosophers)