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leant

  [lent]
Use leant in a Sentence
–verb Chiefly British.
a pp. and pt. of lean 1 .

lean

1  [leen] verb, leaned or (especially British) leant; lean⋅ing; noun
–verb (used without object)
1. to incline or bend from a vertical position: She leaned out the window.
2. to incline, as in a particular direction; slant: The post leans to the left. The building leaned sharply before renovation.
3. to incline in feeling, opinion, action, etc.: to lean toward socialism.
4. to rest against or on something for support: to lean against a wall.
5. to depend or rely (usually fol. by on or upon): someone he could lean on in an emergency.
–verb (used with object)
6. to incline or bend: He leaned his head forward.
7. to cause to lean or rest; prop: to lean a chair against the railing.
–noun
8. the act or state of leaning; inclination: The tower has a pronounced lean.
—Verb phrase
9. lean on, Informal.
a. to exert influence or pressure on in order to gain cooperation, maintain discipline, or the like: The state is leaning on the company to clean up its industrial wastes.
b. to criticize, reprimand, or punish: I would have enjoyed school more if the teachers hadn't leaned on me so much.
—Idiom
10. lean over backward(s). bend 1 (def. 20).
Origin:
bef. 900; ME lenen, OE hleonian, hlinian; c. G. lehnen; akin to L clīnāre to incline, Gk klnein
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leant   (lěnt)   
v.   Chiefly British
A past tense and a past participle of lean1.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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