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Supine : adj
1: 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]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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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. -- Su*pine"ly, adv. --
Su*pine"ness, n.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Supine : Supine: With the back or dorsal surface downward. A person who is supine is lying face up. As opposed to prone.
For a more complete listing of terms used in medicine for spatial orientation, please see the entry to " Anatomic Orientation Terms ".
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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