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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
supine
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 impossible to resist.
▪ The test was done in both erect and supine positions.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a supine parliament
▪ a supine position
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A phone box stood beside a deserted stretch of road - a red oblong rooted in the streaming supine grass.
▪ As he squinted, he saw that the supine figure was glistening.
▪ Its monstrous supine silhouette was clearly visible on the stairs.
▪ Needless to say, most sociologists are reluctant to relax into this supine position - and with good reason.
▪ The test was done in both erect and supine positions.
▪ Wires, screens, machines and consoles surrounded the bed where the supine body lay.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Supine

Supine \Su*pine"\, a. [L. supinus, akin to sub under, super above. Cf. Sub-, Super-.]

  1. Lying on the back, or with the face upward; -- opposed to prone.

  2. Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined.

    If the vine On rising ground be placed, or hills supine.
    --Dryden.

  3. Negligent; heedless; indolent; listless.

    He became pusillanimous and supine, and openly exposed to any temptation.
    --Woodward.

    Syn: Negligent; heedless; indolent; thoughtless; inattentive; listless; careless; drowsy. [1913 Webster] -- Su*pine"ly, adv. -- Su*pine"ness, n.

Supine

Supine \Su"pine\, n. [L. supinum (sc. verbum), from supinus bent or thrown backward, perhaps so called because, although furnished with substantive case endings, it rests or falls back, as it were, on the verb: cf. F. supin.] (Lat. Gram.) 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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
supine

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.) is from Late Latin supinum verbum "supine verb," perhaps so called because, though furnished with a noun case ending, it "falls back" on the verb. Related: Supinely.

Wiktionary
supine

a. lie on its back, reclined n. (context grammar English) A type of verbal noun.

WordNet
supine
  1. adj. lying face upward [syn: resupine]

  2. offering no resistance; "resistless hostages"; "No other colony showed such supine, selfish helplessness in allowing her own border citizens to be mercilessly harried"- Theodore Roosevelt [syn: resistless, unresisting]

Wikipedia
Supine

In grammar, a supine is a form of verbal noun used in some languages. The term is most often used for Latin.

Supine (disambiguation)

A supine is a verbal noun in some languages.

Supine may also refer to:

  • Supine (temperament), a temperament in the psychological model of five temperaments
  • Supine position, the position of the body lying down with the face up
  • Supination, a position of either the forearm or foot

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.