SUPPLE
\sˈʌpə͡l], \sˈʌpəl], \s_ˈʌ_p_əl]\
Definitions of SUPPLE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
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(used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely
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make pliant and flexible; "These boots are not yet suppled by frequent use"
By Princeton University
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(used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely
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make pliant and flexible, as of leather and skins; "These boots are not yet suppled by frequent use"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Pliant; flexible; easily bent; as, supple joints; supple fingers.
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Yielding compliant; not obstinate; submissive to guidance; as, a supple horse.
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Bending to the humor of others; flattering; fawning; obsequious.
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To make soft and pliant; to render flexible; as, to supple leather.
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To make compliant, submissive, or obedient.
By Oddity Software
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Easily bent; flexible; as, supple joints; submissive; yielding; as, a supple nature; meanly bending to the humor of others.
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To make soft and flexible; to make submissive.
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To grow soft and flexible.
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Suppleness.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Suppleness.
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Pliant: lithe: yielding to the humor of others: fawning.
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To make supple: to make soft or compliant.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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