Supine is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SUPINE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a Latin verbal noun
• a Latin verbal noun used only in the accusative and ablative cases, especially to denote purpose (e.g. mirabile dictu ‘wonderful to relate’).
• 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.
• a Latin verbal noun used only in the accusative and ablative cases, especially to denote purpose (e.g. mirabile dictu ‘wonderful to relate’).
• noun form derived from a verb in Latin
ADJECTIVE:
• lying on the back, passive
• (of a person) lying face upwards.
• having the front or ventral part upwards.
• (of the hand) with the palm upwards.
• failing to act or protest as a result of moral weakness or indolence
• Lying on the back, or with the face upward; -- opposed to prone.
• Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined.
• Negligent; heedless; indolent; listless.
• offering no resistance
• lying flat on one's back
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• lying flat on one\'s back

Words related to SUPINE

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Words that contain SUPINE

supines9 resupine10 supinely13 supineness12 supinenesses14

How to use SUPINE in a sentence

• The bishops, for the most part, rest supine amid all this storm of tyranny.
• And when I felt myself sway out of balance backward, I closed my eyes and permitted myself to fall supine and unconscious on the mattress.
• Then becoming comparatively quiet and supine she would quiver all over while her eyelids trembled with great rapidity.
• But during the period of repose which followed the first anti-slavery triumph, a portion of this body, losing its original activity, had become comparatively supine.
• The stricken man Measured his length supine amid the fern.
• One day, wearing this same tie, he bethought him of his negligence lying supine on the grass, while his sister Bess was meanwhile reading in the immediate vicinity.
• While Manhattan society was by no means a supine and merely imitative affair, the country was too new not to cling a bit to English and French formalities.
• The woman who moved him to the deepest force of his nature, was she who knew the brute, not the gentleman in him, and bowed herself in supine submission.
• The chest is the next region to be handled, the patient turning from the prone to the supine position.
• The easy-going and friendly Russian peasant, supine under the violent political changes, is a traditional friend and an unwilling enemy.
• And yet, despite their danger, the people of Germany remained supine.
• He held on for a moment to the branch, while a groan of deepest agony broke from his lips, when he fell supine to the ground.
• Nothing but a chaise-longue on which to lie supine, at ease, can make the study of these wonderful ceilings anything but a distressing source of fatigue.
• In his shoulder stood The spear, and with loud groans supine he fell.
• The human beings trapped in the town wailed and ran, or lay and beat their heads and hands on the ground, supine before the invaders.
• But for all that she was so plaintive and so supine, there was a certain quality of force within her, and she insisted upon some provision for the future.
• In her simple, wholly supine way, she realised that there were nothing but Chinese inns in the place, and therefore it would be a good opportunity to open a hotel for foreigners.
• In all this economy of living, his wife assisted him greatly, for although supine and flexible there was that quality of force about her which we have mentioned before.
• Therefore, with the point of his sharp, keen knife, he gently prodded the throat of the sleeper, lying supine before him under the moon rays.
• They must be neither provocative nor supine, neither fanatical nor excessively liberal, in their exposition of the fundamental and distinguishing features of their Faith.
• His weakness was so great that the policy of lying silent and supine, rather than exert his failing powers, was commended by his inclination as well as his prudence.
• She stays in a hut or shelter specially made for her, on the floor of which she lies supine.
• Banks, supine in his camps, made neither threat nor demonstration.
• Whether his discussion leads to a trustworthy result or not, the sincerity and the energy of his endeavour after truth serve to banish all supine and half-hearted moods.
• He feared lethargy of heart, the supine mood, more than he feared excess of passion.
• Languid and spiritless, they lay supine, or crawled listlessly and aimlessly about.
• And conscious still of the divine Within them, lie on earth supine No longer.
• What I did see was the formidable and magnificent machine, the apparatus of learning, supine in repose.
• This terror of the people is absolute, ignorant, and therefore supine.
• Then she must get her in a supine position with her head slightly lower than any other part of her body in order that the brain might get a plentiful supply of blood.
• And then, for the first time, she became supine in his arms.

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