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Incline

A slope.

📖 Definitions of "Incline"

noun
  1. 1

    A slope.

    "To reach the building, we had to climb a steep incline."

verb
  1. 1

    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."

  2. 2

    To slope.

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

  3. 3

    (chiefly in the 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."

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