LEAN BACK

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does lean back mean? 

• LEAN BACK (verb)
  The verb LEAN BACK has 1 sense:

1. move the upper body backwards and down

  Familiarity information: LEAN BACK used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEAN BACK (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move the upper body backwards and down

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

lean back; recline

Hypernyms (to "lean back" is one way to...):

angle; lean; slant; tilt; tip (to incline or bend from a vertical position)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "lean back"):

fall back (fall backwards and down)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

Now lean back, and listen attentively to whatever I may care to say to you.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We all sprang out with the exception of Holmes, who continued to lean back with his eyes fixed upon the sky in front of him, entirely absorbed in his own thoughts.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sometimes of an evening, when I looked up from my writing, and saw her seated opposite, I would lean back in my chair, and think how queer it was that there we were, alone together as a matter of course—nobody's business any more—all the romance of our engagement put away upon a shelf, to rust—no one to please but one another—one another to please, for life.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They may dose me and doctor me morning, noon, and night, and dust and sweep and put my den to rights every minute of the day, and I shall only lean back and survey it all and be thankful in that I am possessed of a mother and some several sisters.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)