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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: supple (0.01037 detik)
Found 3 items, similar to supple.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: supple gemulai
English → English (WordNet) Definition: supple supple v : make pliant and flexible; “These boots are not yet suppled by frequent use” supple adj 1: gracefully slender; moving and bending with ease [syn: lissome, lissom, lithe, lithesome, slender, svelte, sylphlike] 2: (used of e.g. personality traits) readily adaptable; “a supple mind”; “a limber imagination” [syn: limber] 3: (used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely [syn: limber]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Supple Supple \Sup"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Suppled; p. pr. & vb. n. Suppling.] 1. To make soft and pliant; to render flexible; as, to supple leather. [1913 Webster] The flesh therewith she suppled and did steep. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] 2. To make compliant, submissive, or obedient. [1913 Webster] A mother persisting till she had bent her daughter's mind and suppled her will. --Locke. [1913 Webster] They should supple our stiff willfulness. --Barrow. [1913 Webster] Supple \Sup"ple\, a. [OE. souple, F. souple, from L. supplex suppliant, perhaps originally, being the knees. Cf. Supplicate.] 1. Pliant; flexible; easily bent; as, supple joints; supple fingers. [1913 Webster] 2. Yielding compliant; not obstinate; submissive to guidance; as, a supple horse. [1913 Webster] If punishment . . . makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender. --Locke. [1913 Webster] 3. Bending to the humor of others; flattering; fawning; obsequious. --Addison. [1913 Webster] Syn: Pliant; flexible; yielding; compliant; bending; flattering; fawning; soft. [1913 Webster] Supple \Sup"ple\, v. i. To become soft and pliant. [1913 Webster] The stones . . . Suppled into softness as they fell. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]

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