| Definitions of 'supine' |
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1. (adj) supine, resupine
lying face upward
2. (adj) resistless, supine, unresisting
offering no resistance
"resistless hostages"; "No other colony showed such supine, selfish helplessness in allowing her own border citizens to be mercilessly harried"- Theodore Roosevelt
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| Definitions of 'supine' |
Webster 1913 Dictionary |
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1. (adj) supine
lying on the back, or with the face upward; -- opposed to prone
2. (adj) supine
leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined
3. (adj) supine
negligent; heedless; indolent; listless
4. (noun) supine
a verbal noun; or (according to C.F.Becker), a case of the infinitive mood ending in -um and -u, that in -um being sometimes called the former supine, and that in -u the latter supine
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