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Definition of incline : 1. An inclined plane; an ascent o descent; a grade or gradient; a slope.
2. Fig.: To lean or tend, in an intellectual or moral sense; to favor an opinion, a course of conduct, or a person; to have a propensity or inclination; to be disposed.
3. To bend; to cause to stoop or bow; as, to incline the head or the body in acts of reverence or civility.
4. To bow; to incline the head.
5. To cause to deviate from a line, position, or direction; to give a leaning, bend, or slope to; as, incline the column or post to the east; incline your head to the right.
6. To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a road inclines to the north or south.
7. To impart a tendency or propensity to, as to the will or affections; to turn; to dispose; to influence.

Synonyms:

hawk, bend, warp, predispose, cast out, race, lead, inclined plane, sky, die hard, bow, turn tail, list, melt, side of meat, mold, vend, likely, ladder, deflect, peddle, side, pass, bias, angle, sway, endure, pitch, persist, work, feed, influence, gradient, curve, qualify, trend, inclination, monger, flip, heel, throw away, course, move, run for, gear, draw, chuck out, scarper, ramp, lurch, cast away, range, submit, function, cant over, go, hunt, hightail it, straight, turn, tilt, toss out, toss, slant, deviate, run away, set up, play, lam, twist, throw out, tip, escape, face, take to the woods, unravel, be given, wild leek, bunk, crook, diverge, run, grade, dispose, yield, position, persuade, stoop, approach, squint, twine, flow, fling, melt down, track down, like, rake, operate, toss away, fly the coop, deliver, rise, put away, slope, huckster, break away, affect, ply, discard, execute, hunt down, guide, cast aside, scat, head for the hills, cant, consort, shift, bleed, prevail, carry, extend, black market, campaign

lean, tend

Usage examples:

• Your father's partners incline to the hope that it may prove so; but I have no hope, no hope. - "Salome", Emma Marshall.
• To attain an end so indispensable if, in my studies, I was worked out to my limit, I would incline to the discussion of questions that would not send me to the library but into the open air, themes on which I could prepare myself during a stroll, subjects that I could stick in the corner of a mirror to formulate while I shaved. - "Revisiting the Earth", James Langdon Hill.
• Better if they'd had water running down the incline, though, and sent all the boats in that way. - "Punch 1893.07.29", Various.