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suppled

suppled is the simple past and past participle of supple.

Meaning of supple

Verb

supple (third-person singular simple present supples, present participle suppling, simple past and past participle suppled)

  1. (ambitransitive) To make or become supple.
    • The flesh therewith she suppled and did steepe1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 33
  2. (transitive) To make compliant, submissive, or obedient.
    • They should supple our stiff wilfulness.a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, Of contentment, patience and resignation to the will of God

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Questions about suppled

What is suppled the simple past and past participle of?
Suppled is the simple past and past participle of supple.

Words near suppled in the dictionary

  1. supple
  2. supple jack
  3. supple jacks
  4. supple-jack
  5. supple-jacks
  6. suppled
  7. Supplee
  8. Supplee's paradox
  9. Supplees
  10. supplejack
  11. supplejacks

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