lean

Pronunciation

• enPR: lēn, IPA ^(key): /liːn/
• SAMPA: /li:n/

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Verb

Plain form lean

Third-person singular leans

Past tense leaned

Past participle leaned

Present participle leaning

Plain form lean

Third-person singular leans

Past tense leant

Past participle leant

Present participle leaning

1. If you lean against something, then you push or press against it.

   He leaned his bicycle against the wall.

2. move into a bending style, forwards, backwards, sideways

Adjective

Positive lean

Comparative leaner

Superlative leanest

1. If a person is lean, then he or she is slim and not fat.
2. If a piece of meat is lean, it has little or no fat.

Related words

• leanness