Found 3 items, similar to Supple.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: supple
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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.
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The flesh therewith she suppled and did steep.
--Spenser.
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2. To make compliant, submissive, or obedient.
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A mother persisting till she had bent her daughter's
mind and suppled her will. --Locke.
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They should supple our stiff willfulness. --Barrow.
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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.
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2. Yielding compliant; not obstinate; submissive to guidance;
as, a supple horse.
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If punishment . . . makes not the will supple, it
hardens the offender. --Locke.
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3. Bending to the humor of others; flattering; fawning;
obsequious. --Addison.
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Syn: Pliant; flexible; yielding; compliant; bending;
flattering; fawning; soft.
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Supple
\Sup"ple\, v. i.
To become soft and pliant.
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The stones . . .
Suppled into softness as they fell. --Dryden.
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