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Reclining
- verb - cause to recline; "She reclined her head on the pillow"
- lean in a comfortable resting position; "He was reposing on the couch"
- move the upper body backwards and down
- the act of assuming or maintaining a reclining position
Recoiling
- verb - come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect; "Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble"
- draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"
- spring back, as from a forceful thrust; "The gun kicked back into my shoulder"
- spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide"
Recopying
- verb - copy again; "The child had to recopy the homework"
Recording
- verb - a signal that encodes something (e.g., picture or sound) that has been recorded
- a storage device on which information (sounds or images) have been recorded
- be aware of; "Did you register any change when I pressed the button?"
- be or provide a memorial to a person or an event; "This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps"; "We memorialized the Dead"
- indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments; "The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The gauge read `empty'"
- make a record of; set down in permanent form
- register electronically; "They recorded her singing"
- the act of making a record (especially an audio record); "she watched the recording from a sound-proof booth"
Recouping
- verb - regain or make up for; "recuperate one's losses"
- reimburse or compensate (someone), as for a loss
- retain and refrain from disbursing; of payments; "My employer is withholding taxes"
Recumbing
- verb - lean in a comfortable resting position; "He was reposing on the couch"
Recurring
- verb - coming back; "a revenant ghost"
- happen or occur again; "This is a recurring story"
- have recourse to; "The government resorted to rationing meat"
- return in thought or speech to something
Recurving
- verb - curve or bend (something) back or down
Recycling
- verb - cause to repeat a cycle
- Collect usable items from waste
- the act of processing used or abandoned materials for use in creating new products
- use again after processing; "We must recycle the cardboard boxes"
Redacting
- verb - formulate in a particular style or language;
- prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting; "Edit a book on lexical semantics"; "she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages"