Meanings (ES + gloss)
magro • momio
Slim; not fleshy.
They will now dedicate several hours at the gym every day to be leaner and stronger.
magro • momio
Having little fat.
The butcher and the porkman painted up only the leanest scrags of meat; the baker, the coarsest of meagre loaves.
lean steak cuts
ajustado • estrecho
Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre.
a lean budget
a lean harvest
delgado • pobre • sobreoxigenado
Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient.
A lean ore hardly worth mining.
Running on too lean a fuel-air mixture will cause, among other problems, your internal combustion engine to heat up too much.
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Meanings (ES + gloss)
debruzar • debruzarse • inclinarse • propender
To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.
She leaned out of the window.
a leaning column
apoyarse
To rest or rely, for support, comfort, to use as a hard surface for writing, etc.
He lean'd not on his fathers but himself.
The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.
declinarse
To hang outwards.
apoyarse • arrimar • reclinar
To press against.
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Meanings (ES + gloss)
enmagrecer
To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or oxygen.
Even the Pilot's Operating Handbooks (POH) for our training airplanes add to our paranoia with their insistence that we not lean the mixture until we're above 5000 feet density alt…
He leaned the mixture in an effort to cause a backfire through the carburetor, the generally accepted method of breaking the ice loose.
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