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supine
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Word definitions for supine in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN position ▪ Needless to say, most sociologists are reluctant to relax into this supine position - and with good reason. ▪ After her disturbed night, she supine position and the soporific effect of air and sun were ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Supine \Su*pine"\, a. [L. supinus, akin to sub under, super above. Cf. Sub- , Super- .] Lying on the back, or with the face upward; -- opposed to prone. Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined. If the vine On rising ground ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1500, "lying on the back," from Latin supinus "bent backwards, thrown backwards, lying on the back," figuratively "inactive, indolent," from PIE *(s)up- (see sub- ). The grammatical use for "Latin verbal noun formed from the past participle stem" (mid-15c.) ...
Usage examples of supine.
Bustos Domecq, autor del libro, cumple una condena de cadena perpetua por un crimen del que se supone, por mor del tono de la obra, es inocente.
Jacom looked across at Merel Zabio, who was now kneeling with Phar beside the supine body of the big amber.
The microcephalic shoved a broad thumb against the supine figure in the area between the umbilicus and the breasthone.
Madame palmed the creamy cheeks of the supine girl, flattening her hand into the upturned bottom with tender dominance.
Fever, resulting from local inflammation, does not produce muscular prostration, and the patient seldom or never assumes the supine position.
Some simply lay down supine under a cask and let the wine pour directly from tap to mouth, with the result that the floor was soon sloshy and slippery.
To cloud celestially sown, Ran venom of what nourishment Her dark sustainer subterrene Supplied her, stretched supine on the rack, Alive in the shrewd nerves, the seething brains, Under derisive revels, prone As one clamped fast, with the interminable senseless blent.
Quarantine, Rau followed the supine form of his still-stunned superior off for whatever short-arm inspection Biocontrol demanded without a word.
Neither neighbor of the successful invader paid any overt attention to matters as they now stood, but Gelvarry noticed that as they bobbed and weaved at their machines, with the new monkey between them and with the dead cranker supine at his feet, they unobtrusively extended their limbs and tails to nudge lightly at the body, until they had almost inadvertently kicked it out of sight behind the machines.
He climbed into the tub like the first brave man to go down in a submarine, assumed a relatively comfortable supine position, camcorder resting momentarily on his chest, a compulsive-obsessive vampire at peace in his sanitary, enameled coffin.
He went back to Shaltie, who was supine on the tile floor, blowing blood bubbles through his torn nose.
She could smell the blood from the living room floor where Lena and Suzette were still strewn on the floor, naked and supine, and crawling over the body of one of the maids, tearing at her with their nails and teeth, as if they were canines or hyenas, starved for a meal.
I wondered whether it was possible to lie supine and throw up without aspirating vomit or choking.
I arranged myself upon the bed, supine, staring upward and listened to the cocksucking rain.
They were all high as kites, laughing uproariously and half-watching a blue film on the video, in which a plump redhead was doing unmentionable things to a supine Father Christmas.