supple
make pliant and flexible - These boots are not yet suppled by frequent use • Hypernyms: change, alter, modify • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s something - Something ----s something
1. (used of e.g. personality traits) readily adaptable - a supple mind - a limber imagination • Syn: limber • Similar to: flexible • Derivationally related forms: suppleness 2. (used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely • Syn: limber • Similar to: flexible, flexile • Derivationally related forms: suppleness 3. moving and bending with ease • Syn: lissome, lissom, lithe, lithesome, slender, svelte, sylphlike • Similar to: graceful • Derivationally related forms: suppleness, slenderness (for: slender), litheness (for: lithe), lissomeness (for: lissome)
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