incline
Word Statistics
Standard vocabulary
Used frequently in everyday conversation
Moderate complexity
Analysis:
- • Common vocabulary word
- • Simple pronunciation
1. A slope.
"To reach the building, we had to climb a steep incline."
1. To bend or move (something) out of a given plane or direction, often the horizontal or vertical.
"He had to incline his body against the gusts to avoid being blown down in the storm."
2. To slope.
"Over the centuries the wind made the walls of the farmhouse incline."
3. (chiefly in the passive) To tend to do or believe something, or move or be moved in a certain direction, away from a point of view, attitude, etc.
"He inclines to believe anything he reads in the newspapers."
Source: en.wiktionary.org
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