incline

Academic Word List, sublist 10.

About 1.52 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb 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. verb To slope.

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

3. verb To move (someone) towards a certain attitude, course of action, point of view, etc.

   Her erratic behaviour inclines me to doubt that she can be trusted.

4. verb 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.

5. noun A slope.

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

6. noun A portal of a subway tunnel.

   the Pleasant Street Incline

Similar words

slope lean run dispose ramp tend side pitch tilt slant

Often followed by

to the of towards us toward them and him

Word family

inclination inclinations inclined incliner incliners inclines inclining inconceivable inconceivably