"recule" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "recules",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "reculing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "reculed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "reculed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "_dis": "35 21 6 32 6",
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        {
          "ref": "1525, Jean Froissart, translated by Sir John Bourchier, The Chronicle of Froissart - Volume 3, page 374:",
          "text": "The Flemmynges began to be abasshed and to be discomfyted, and began to recule backe, and to fall one upon another.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1546, Great Britain. Record Commission, State Papers: pt. III. Correspondence between the governments of England and Ireland, 1515-1546, page 250:",
          "text": "Then being in Auguste, he came and campid his hole hooste in an ylande in the water of Barrowe, and dayly wolde come into the bordures of thErle of Ossories cuntrey, and sawe moche people dayly in ordre of battaile, and then would recule to their campe.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:",
          "text": "And forced them, however strong and stout\nThey were, as well approv'd in many a doubt,\nBacke to recule",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To recoil or retreat; to draw back."
      ],
      "id": "en-recule-en-verb-Pb0jMuPp",
      "links": [
        [
          "recoil",
          "recoil"
        ],
        [
          "retreat",
          "retreat"
        ],
        [
          "draw back",
          "draw back"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) To recoil or retreat; to draw back."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɹɪˈkjuːl/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "recule"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "recules",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "reculing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "reculed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "reculed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1525, Jean Froissart, translated by Sir John Bourchier, The Chronicle of Froissart - Volume 3, page 374:",
          "text": "The Flemmynges began to be abasshed and to be discomfyted, and began to recule backe, and to fall one upon another.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1546, Great Britain. Record Commission, State Papers: pt. III. Correspondence between the governments of England and Ireland, 1515-1546, page 250:",
          "text": "Then being in Auguste, he came and campid his hole hooste in an ylande in the water of Barrowe, and dayly wolde come into the bordures of thErle of Ossories cuntrey, and sawe moche people dayly in ordre of battaile, and then would recule to their campe.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:",
          "text": "And forced them, however strong and stout\nThey were, as well approv'd in many a doubt,\nBacke to recule",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To recoil or retreat; to draw back."
      ],
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        [
          "recoil",
          "recoil"
        ],
        [
          "retreat",
          "retreat"
        ],
        [
          "draw back",
          "draw back"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) To recoil or retreat; to draw back."
      ],
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        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɹɪˈkjuːl/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "recule"
}