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supple    音标拼音: [s'ʌpəl]
a. 柔软的,逢迎的,顺从的
vt. 使柔软,使顺从

柔软的,逢迎的,顺从的使柔软,使顺从

supple
adj 1: moving and bending with ease [synonym: {lissome}, {lissom},
{lithe}, {lithesome}, {slender}, {supple}, {svelte},
{sylphlike}]
2: (used of e.g. personality traits) readily adaptable; "a
supple mind"; "a limber imagination" [synonym: {limber},
{supple}]
3: (used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely
[synonym: {limber}, {supple}]
v 1: make pliant and flexible; "These boots are not yet suppled
by frequent use"

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\ (s[u^]p"p'l), 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. t. [imp. & p. p. {Suppled} (s[u^]p"p'ld);
p. pr. & vb. n. {Suppling} (s[u^]p"pl[i^]ng).]
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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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


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