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suppling

suppling is the present participle and gerund 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 suppling

What is suppling the present participle and gerund of?
Suppling is the present participle and gerund of supple.

Words near suppling in the dictionary

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

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