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  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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  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.
  
     2. Yielding compliant; not obstinate; submissive to guidance;
        as, a supple horse.
  
              If punishment . . . makes not the will supple, it
              hardens the offender.                 --Locke.
  
     3. Bending to the humor of others; flattering; fawning;
        obsequious. --Addison.
  
     Syn: Pliant; flexible; yielding; compliant; bending;
          flattering; fawning; soft.

  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.
  
              The flesh therewith she suppled and did steep.
                                                    --Spenser.
  
     2. To make compliant, submissive, or obedient.
  
              A mother persisting till she had bent her daughter's
              mind and suppled her will.            --Locke.
  
              They should supple our stiff willfulness. --Barrow.

  Supple \Sup"ple\, v. i.
     To become soft and pliant.
  
           The stones . . . Suppled into softness as they fell.
                                                    --Dryden.

  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]
       v : make pliant and flexible; "These boots are not yet suppled
           by frequent use"

  supple
     Γαλλικά adv.
     (σπαν) με άρρητος τρόπο

  supple
     Latin vb.
     (inflection of la suppleō  2 s pres actv impr)

  Supple
     n.
     (surname: en).

  supple
     a.
     1 pliant, flexible, easy to bend.
     2 lithe and agile when moving and bending.
     3 (lb en figuratively) compliant; yielding to the will of others.
     vb.
     1 (lb en ambitransitive) To make#Verb or become supple.
     2 (lb en transitive) To make compliant, submissive(,) or obedient.

  Supple
     n.
     (surname: en).

  supple
     Latin vb.
     (inflection of la suppleō  2 s pres actv impr)

  Supple
     n.
     (surname: en).

  supple
     Latin vb.
     (inflection of la suppleō  2 s pres actv impr)

  Supple
     n.
     (surname: en).

  Supple /sˈʌpəl/
  مرن

  supple //ˈsʌpəl// 
  1. податлив
  compliant
  2. гъвкав
  lithe and agile when moving and bending
  3. гъвкав, еластичен
  pliant, easy to bend

  supple /sˈʌpəl/ 
  poddajný

  supple /sˈʌpəl/ 
  čilý

  supple /sˈʌpəl/ 
  přizpůsobivý

  supple /sˈʌpəl/ 
  ystwyth 

  supple /sˈʌpəl/
  anschmiegsam, schmiegsam, geschmeidig 
           Note: Sache
           Note: of a thing

  supple /sˈʌpəl/ 
  gelenkig, beweglich 

  supple /sˈʌpəl/
  
  ευλίγιστος

  supple //ˈsʌpəl// 
  1. myöntyvä, taipuisa
  compliant
  2. notkea, taipuisa 2.
  lithe and agile when moving and bending
   3.
  pliant, easy to bend

  supple /sˈʌpəl/ 
  1. सुनम्य
        "Moisturizing cream keeps your skin soft and supple."

  supple /sˈʌpəl/
  gibak, mek, popustljiv

  supple /sˈʌpəl/
  1. gerinctelen
  2. alkalmazkodó
  3. simulékony
  4. ruganyos
  5. tanulékony
  6. rugalmas
  7. hajlékony
  8. kezelhetô

  supple /ˈsʌpəl/ 
   1.  gibki, zwinny
   2.  miękki, giętki

  supple //ˈsʌpəl// 
  smidig
  lithe and agile when moving and bending

  supple /sˈʌpəl/
  1. yumuşak, kolayca eğilip bükülebilir, elastiki, esnek
  2. uysal, yatkın, başkalarının suyuna giden
  3. yumuşatmak. suppleness  esneklik, elastikiyet.

  
/ˈsəpəɫ/

  145 Moby Thesaurus words for "supple":
     Machiavellian, Machiavellic, able to adapt, accommodating,
     acquiescent, acute, adaptable, adjustable, agile, all-around,
     alterable, alterative, ambidextrous, amphibious, arch, artful,
     astute, athletic, bendable, bending, cagey, canny, changeable,
     checkered, clever, complaisant, compliant, crafty, cunning, cute,
     deceitful, deep, deep-laid, designing, diplomatic, ductile,
     elastic, ever-changing, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile,
     fawning, feline, fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, fluid,
     formable, formative, foxy, generally capable, giving, graceful,
     guileful, impermanent, impressible, impressionable, ingenious,
     ingratiating, insidious, inventive, kaleidoscopic, knowing,
     like putty, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome, malleable,
     many-sided, metamorphic, mobile, modifiable, moldable, movable,
     mutable, nimble, nonuniform, obliging, obsequious, pawky,
     permutable, plastic, pliable, pliant, politic, protean, proteiform,
     ready, receptive, resilient, resourceful, responsive, rubbery,
     scheming, sensitive, sequacious, serpentine, servile, shapable,
     sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slippery, sly, smooth, snaky, sneaky,
     sophistical, springy, stealthy, strategic, stretch, stretchy,
     submissive, subtile, subtle, susceptible, tactical, temporizing,
     timeserving, toadying, tractable, tractile, transient, transitory,
     trickish, tricksy, tricky, trimming, two-handed, unresistant,
     unresisting, variable, versatile, vulpine, wary, whippy, willowy,
     wily, wiry, yielding
  
  

  a. 柔软的,逢迎的,顺从的;

     a. 柔软的,逢迎的,顺从的
     vt. 使柔软,使顺从