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Lean Adjective Synonyms
rest (against or on or upon), be held up or supported by
She leant her head on his shoulder.

impoverished, destitute, needy, poverty-stricken, penurious, indigent, necessitous, hard, bad, difficult
The Depression was a lean period for most people.

forget, mislay, lose
I left my car keys somewhere in the house.

Lean Noun Synonyms
incline, slant, tilt, bend, tip
Isn't that pole leaning over too much.

Lean Verb Synonyms
thin, slim, slender, rangy, spare, wiry, lanky, lank, skinny, angular, bony, raw-boned, gaunt, gangling, gangly, spare, meager, skeletal, scraggy, scrawny, haggard, emaciated, pinched, wasted, shrunken, macilent
He has the lean leggy build typical of a runner.

unfruitful, unproductive, barren, infertile, poor, meager, scanty, bare, arid, sparse, impoverished
The Kanes tried for years to eke a living from the lean soil.

cause or allow to remain, have as a remainder, yield, give
Seven from eleven leaves four.

make, render, cause to be or become or remain
The beauty of the place left me speechless.

entrust, commit, assign, cede, relinquish, give over or up, consign, resign
They are leaving all the responsibility to me.

abandon, desert, take leave of, wash one's hands of, turn one's back on, quit, resign from, give up, renounce, drop (out of)
She left him because he mistreated her. I left school at sixteen.

bequeath, will, hand down, devise, demise, transfer
Her aunt left some valuable paintings to my wife.

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