Recumbent is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RECUMBENT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a type of bicycle designed to be ridden lying almost flat on one's back.
ADJECTIVE:
• reclining; lying comfortably
• (especially of a person or effigy) lying down
• (of a plant) growing close to the ground
• Leaning; reclining; lying; as, the recumbent posture of the Romans at their meals. Hence, figuratively; Resting; inactive; idle.
• lying down; in a position of comfort or rest
• lying down
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• suggestive of repos; leaning, resting; lying down

Words related to RECUMBENT

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How to use RECUMBENT in a sentence

• Leonora bounded from her recumbent position like a lioness at bay.
• Above a porch in front is the figure of a recumbent lion, hewn in sandstone.
• Never shall I forget how, during that long night in prison, he crawled over and around the recumbent forms to where I lay upon the floor courting sleep in vain.
• The next morning, when Jane awoke, the event of yesterday flashed on her memory with a thrill of pleasure that made her start up in a recumbent posture in the bed.
• Brown, still maintaining his recumbent attitude, as though no longer desirous of provoking a battle.
• The Bernese Oberland originated in the piling-up of four great sheets or recumbent folds, one of which is continued into the Prealpes.
• Again, if any person at all, with the exception of Betty, the Master, or the Mistress, approached Finn when he was in a recumbent position, he would invariably rise to his feet.
• But although Jan had had no thought of attacking the recumbent man he had trailed, he was very fully conscious that this man was his quarry.
• Little puffs of red dust, lifted by the plunging hoofs of passing teams, dispersed in a grimy shower upon the recumbent man.
• The recumbent object had been raised, and was seen to be the dark figure of a man whom the others began slowly to lead away.
• In such cases animals remain recumbent and, while the condition is not so painful at this stage, the practitioner must not overlook the real state of affairs.
• The youth, unconscious of the presence of another, kept on idly tossing the pebbles, recumbent on one elbow.
• Others, as the small white and the burr, are recumbent.
• It is more or less recumbent in its habit of growth, but the stems do not root as do the runners in the small white variety.
• He was going to make the attempt, nevertheless, when in his excitement, he arose from a recumbent position and frightened the prize away.
• It contains an altar tomb with the recumbent figures of Sir John Chidioke, a Dorset knight, slain in 1449 in the Wars of the Roses, and his wife.
• The owner was a fat, brown individual, whom I had generally seen recumbent on a sofa in his office, while someone of his many sons did all the work.
• The spy saw him coming, and finding that he was discovered, rose from his recumbent position.
• Gabriel remembered what he had heard his father relate about the recumbent statue of Don Alvaro.
• And the two men stood side by side in a room in a house in London regarding his recumbent figure.
• In this I was placed, in a half sitting, half recumbent posture, which I need scarcely observe was not very agreeable.
• With a turn of the hand, scarcely stirring from her recumbent posture, the Fat Lady closed the door and shot its small brass bolt.
• During a few moments Joe regarded the recumbent figures with an expression on his face which told that he thought in them were great possibilities for sport.
• She did not enter the cabin at once, but paused on the threshold and stared at the silent, recumbent figure in the bunk.
• LA FONTAINE, when writing his comic tales, has been observed early in the morning and late in the evening in the same recumbent posture under the same tree.

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