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suppliest

suppliest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of supply.

Meaning of supply

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

Origin of suppliest

From supply + -est.

Questions about suppliest

What is suppliest the second-person singular simple present indicative of?
Suppliest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of supply.

Words near suppliest in the dictionary

  1. supplied up
  2. supplier
  3. suppliers
  4. supplies
  5. supplies up
  6. suppliest
  7. supplieth
  8. suppling
  9. supply
  10. supply air
  11. supply and demand

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