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adjective

Supple adj.

Pliant; flexible; easily bent; as, supple joints; supple fingers.

Yielding; compliant; not obstinate; submissive to guidance; as, a supple horse. "If punishment... makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender."

Bending to the humor of others; flattering; fawning; obsequious.

Synonyms: Pliant; flexible; yielding; compliant; bending; flattering; fawning; soft.

verb

Supple v. t. (past & past part. suppled; pres. part. suppling)

To make soft and pliant; to render flexible; as, to supple leather. "The flesh therewith she suppled and did steep."

To make compliant, submissive, or obedient. "A mother persisting till she had bent her daughter's mind and suppled her will." "They should supple our stiff willfulness."

Supple v. i. To become soft and pliant. "The stones... Suppled into softness as they fell."

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Etymology of 'Supple'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Supple" Quotes from Famous Books

... fences and with little urging will run up the stalks of the tallest sunflowers. So that settles the pole question. There is an ornamental side to the bean question. Suppose you plant these tall beans at the extreme rear end of each vegetable row. Make arches with supple tree limbs, binding them over to form the arch. Train the beans over these. When one stands facing the garden, what a beautiful ...

— The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. • Ellen Eddy Shaw

... pistol in my belt and went out. She was waiting for me at the edge of the cliff. Her attire was more than light, and a small kerchief girded her supple waist. ...

— A Hero of Our Time • M. Y. Lermontov

... as I had asked. What a picture he was as he stood there in flowing robes and huge turban, with his jet black moustache and bronze-brown complexion, one small hand placed over the heart in token of his absolute devotion to the foreign sahibs, and his lithe, supple form leaning forward in the most obsequious attitude imaginable! His ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII, No. 29. August, 1873. • Various

... that's a small part of him," said Samson. "He's a kind of a four horse team. He knows more than any man I ever saw and can tell it and he can wrestle like old Satan and swing a scythe or an axe all day an' mighty supple. He's one of us common folks and don't pretend to be a bit better. He is, though, and we know it, but I don't think he ...

— A Man for the Ages - A Story of the Builders of Democracy • Irving Bacheller

... all over as if about to spring up from his chair, but he did not actually rise. It was just a supple, snake-like play ...

— The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

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