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1 incline
B vtr1 ( bend) incliner [head] ;2 to be inclined to do ( have tendency) avoir tendance à faire ; ( have desire) avoir envie de faire ; if you feel so inclined si l'envie vous en prend ; he was not inclined to help/listen il n'était pas disposé à aider/écouter ; to be artistically inclined avoir un goût pour l'art ; I didn't know he was that way inclined euph péj je ne savais pas qu'il en était ○ euph pej, je ne savais pas qu'il était homosexuel ;4 ( tilt) incliner [mirror, seat].C vi1 ( tend) to incline to ou towards [ideas, politics] tendre vers [extremism, socialism] ; to incline to ou towards greed/severity [person] avoir tendance à être gourmand/sévère ; to incline towards the opinion that avoir tendance à penser que ;2 ( lean) [person, road, tower, tree] s'incliner. -
2 contemplate
['kontəmpleit]1) (to think seriously (about): I was contemplating (= feeling inclined towards) having a holiday; She contemplated her future gloomily.) envisager2) (to look thoughtfully at: The little boy stood contemplating himself in the mirror.) contempler•- contemplative - contemplatively
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