supplied

Verb

supply (third-person singular simple present supplies, present participle supplying, simple past and past participle supplied)

1. (transitive) To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
   • to supply money for the war

   Synonyms:

   fulfill

2. (transitive) To furnish or equip with.
   • to supply a furnace with fuel; to supply soldiers with ammunition

   Synonyms:

   line

3. (transitive) To fill up, or keep full.
   • Rivers are supplied by smaller streams.
4. (transitive) To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
   • It was objected against him that he had never experienced love. Whereupon he arose, left the society, and made it a point not to return to it until he considered that he had supplied the defect.1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque
5. (transitive) To serve instead of; to take the place of.
   • Burning ships the banished sun supply.1666, Edmund Waller, Instructions to a Painter
6. (intransitive) To act as a substitute.

See all 14 meanings of supply