Last Updated：2025/11/20

Dictionary quizzes to help you remember the meaning

Dictionary quizzes to help you remember the meaning

incline

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Source Word

incline

IPA(Pronunciation)

Verb

transitive intransitive passive

Japanese Meaning

（他動詞）物体をある平面や方向からずらして傾ける。 / （自動詞）傾斜する。

What is this buttons?

She had to incline the mirror slightly to catch the light from the window.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

彼女は窓からの光を反射させるために鏡を少し傾けなければならなかった。

Sense（1）

(transitive) 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.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（2）

(intransitive) To slope.

Over the centuries the wind made the walls of the farmhouse incline.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（3）

(chiefly intransitive, chiefly 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.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

inclines

（ present singular third-person ）

inclining

（ participle present ）

inclined

（ participle past ）

inclined

（ past ）

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