LEAN ON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lean on mean? 

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

1. rest on for support

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEAN ON (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rest on for support

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

lean against; lean on; rest on

Context example:

you can lean on me if you get tired

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

adjoin; contact; meet; touch (be in direct physical contact with; make contact)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

The poor dear was evidently terrified at something—very greatly terrified; I do believe that if he had not had me to lean on and to support him he would have sunk down.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It is the Rock of Ages I ask you to lean on: do not doubt but it will bear the weight of your human weakness.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

At Oxford I have been a good deal used to have a man lean on me for the length of a street, and you are only a fly in the comparison.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The first part of this deposition did not in the least interest me, but when the mark of the fingers was mentioned I remembered the murder of my brother and felt myself extremely agitated; my limbs trembled, and a mist came over my eyes, which obliged me to lean on a chair for support.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

"Delay an instant: lean on me, Jane."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Oh, lean on me, sir.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)