Sekirov Dictionary

supple

/ˈsʌpəl/

adjective 4
verb 2
forms 5

adjective4

•
Pliant, flexible, easy to bend.
- Global supply chains, meanwhile, have grown both tighter and more supple since the late 1990s—the result of improving information technology and of freer trade—making routine work easier to relocate. — 2011
•
Lithe and agile when moving and bending.
- supple joints
- supple fingers
•
(figurative) Compliant; yielding to the will of others.
- If punishment […] makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender. — 1693
Smooth and drinkable.

verb2

•
To make or become supple.
- The flesh therewith she suppled and did steepe — 1590
•
To make compliant, submissive, or obedient.
- They should supple our stiff wilfulness. — 1677

forms

suppled · suppling · supples · suppler · supplest

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