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English to English adjective
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Lying on the back, or with the face upward; -- opposed to prone. |  | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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lying face upward | | source: wordnet30
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offering no resistance | | Example: resistless hostages
No other colony showed such supine, selfish helplessness in allowing her own border citizens to be mercilessly harried
source: wordnet30 noun
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A verbal noun; or (according to C.F.Becker), a case of the infinitive mood ending in -um and -u, that in -um being sometimes called the former supine, and that in -u the latter supine. | | source: webster1913
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