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Supine

Adjective

Definitions

1.AdjectiveLying on its back.
2.AdjectiveTurned facing toward the body or upward: with the thumb outward (palm up), or with the big toe raised relative to the little toe. A foot in the prone, normal, and supine positions.
"when one is washing one’s face, the hand is in the supine position; and then the forearm is also in the supine position; when the foot is resting on the outer side of the sole, it is in the supine position"
3.AdjectiveReluctant to take action due to indifference or moral weakness; apathetic or passive towards something.
"Such corruption is commonplace in a world of supine civil servants and underfunded ministries."
4.AdjectiveInclining or leaning backward; inclined, sloping.
5.NounIn Latin and other languages: a type of verbal noun used in the ablative and accusative cases, which shares the same stem as the passive participle.
6.NounIn Swedish, Faroese, Icelandic and Old Norse: a verb form that combines with an inflection of ha/hafa/hava to form the present perfect and pluperfect tenses.
7.Noun(obsolete terminology) The 'to'-prefixed infinitive in English or other Germanic languages, so named because the infinitive was regarded as a verbal noun and the 'to'-prefixed form of it was seen as the dative form of the verbal noun; the full infinitive.
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