<B>superwoman, </B>noun, pl. <B>-women.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a woman of extraordinary or superhuman powers. <BR> <I>Ex. The novel's heroine, a toothsome superwoman who runs a railroad (Atlantic).</I> </DL>
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<B>supinate, </B>verb, <B>-nated,</B> <B>-nating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> to hold or turn (the hand or forelimb) so that the palm faces up or forward. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to be supinated; undergo supination. </DL>
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<B>supination, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a rotation of the hand or forelimb so that the palm faces up or forward. <DD><B> 2. </B>a similar movement of the foot, hindlimb, shoulder, or the like. <DD><B> 3. </B>the position which results from this rotation. </DL>
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<B>supinator, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a muscle, especially of the forearm, that effects or assists in supination. </DL>
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<B>supine, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>lying flat on the back. <BR> <I>Ex. a supine person.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>recumbent with the face or front upward. <BR> <I>Ex. a supine position.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) lazily inactive; listless, especially morally or mentally. (SYN) languid, indolent, inert. <DD><B> 4. </B>not active; passive. <DD><B> 5. </B>sloping or inclining backwards. <BR> <I>Ex. like the young moon supine (Shelley).</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>supinated. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>either of two Latin verbal nouns formed from the stem of the past participle, one ending in <I>-tum</I> or <I>-sum</I> and the other ending in <I>-tu</I> or <I>-su.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a verbal form of similar function in another language. adv. <B>supinely.</B> noun <B>supineness.</B> </DL>
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<B>supp.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> supplement. </DL>
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<B>supper, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the evening meal; meal eaten early in the evening if dinner is near noon, or late in the evening if dinner is at six or later. <DD><B> 2. </B>the hour at which this is eaten; suppertime. <DD><B> 3. </B>such a meal made the occasion of a social or festive gathering. <BR> <I>Ex. a church supper.</I> </DL>
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<B>supper club,</B> <B>=night club.</B></DL>
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<B>supperless, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having no supper; going without supper. <BR> <I>Ex. The disobedient boy was sent to bed supperless.</I> </DL>
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<B>suppertime, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the time at which supper is served. </DL>
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<B>suppl.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> supplement. </DL>
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<B>supplant, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to take the place of; displace or set aside; supersede. <BR> <I>Ex. Machinery has largely supplanted hand labor in making shoes.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to take the place of by unfair methods. <BR> <I>Ex. The general plotted to supplant the king with the help of the army.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to remove from its position; get rid of; oust. noun <B>supplanter.</B> </DL>
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<B>supplantation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of supplanting. <DD><B> 2. </B>the condition of being supplanted. </DL>
<B>supple, </B>adjective, <B>-pler,</B> <B>-plest,</B> verb, <B>-pled,</B> <B>-pling.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>bending or folding easily, without breaking or cracking; pliant. <BR> <I>Ex. a supple birch tree, supple leather.</I> (SYN) pliable. <DD><B> 2. </B>capable of bending easily; moving easily or nimbly. <BR> <I>Ex. a supple dancer. "In my youth," said the sage ... "I kept all my limbs very supple By the use of this ointment" (Lewis Carroll).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) readily adaptable to different ideas, circumstances, or people: <DD><B> a. </B>flexible; elastic. <BR> <I>Ex. a keen and supple mind.</I> (SYN) plastic. <DD><B> b. </B>yielding readily to persuasion or influence; compliant. <BR> <I>Ex. She gets along well with people because of her supple nature.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>artfully or servilely complaisant or obsequious. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to make supple. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to grow supple. adv. <B>supplely.</B> noun <B>suppleness.</B> </DL>
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<B>supplejack, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of various climbing and twining shrubs with tough, pliable stems, found in tropical and subtropical forests. </DL>
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<B>supplement, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>something added to complete a thing, or to make it larger or better. Newspapers have supplements that are usually of a special character and issued as an additional feature. <BR> <I>Ex. There is a travel supplement in the Sunday newspaper. That history book has a supplement containing an account of what has happened since 1970.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>something added to supply a deficiency. <BR> <I>Ex. a diet supplement.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>the amount needed to make an angle or arc equal to 180 degrees. (Abr:) supp. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to supply what is lacking in; add to; complete. <BR> <I>Ex. He supplements his diet with vitamin pills.</I> noun <B>supplementer.</B> </DL>
<B>supplementarily, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in a supplementary manner. </DL>
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<B>supplementary, </B>adjective, noun, pl. <B>-ries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>additional. <BR> <I>Ex. a volume supplementary to the original encyclopedia.</I> (SYN) extra, auxiliary. <DD><B> 2. </B>added to supply what is lacking. <BR> <I>Ex. The new members of the class received supplementary instruction.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> something which is supplementary; supplement. <BR> <I>Ex. Mr. Callaghan added a string of supplementaries to Mr. Wilson's simple challenge (Manchester Guardian Weekly).</I> (SYN) addition, appendage. </DL>
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<B>supplementary angle,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> either of two angles which together form an angle of 180 degrees (a straight line). <BR> <I>Ex. A 60-degree angle is the supplementary angle of a 120-degree angle.</I> </DL>
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<B>supplementation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of supplementing. <BR> <I>Ex. Supplementation of the diet with egg-yolk ... resulted in a fall in recurrences of rheumatic fever (New Scientist).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a supplementary addition. </DL>
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<B>supplete, </B>transitive verb, <B>-pleted,</B> <B>-pleting.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Obsolete.) to supplement. </DL>
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<B>suppletion, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Grammar.) the occurrence or use of suppletive forms. </DL>
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<B>suppletive, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Grammar.) <DD><B> 1. </B>(of a word or form) used as the inflected form in a paradigm that lacks one or more inflected forms, as <I>went</I> in "go, went, gone," and <I>better, best</I> in "good, better, best." <DD><B> 2. </B>(of a paradigm) containing one or more such words or forms. </DL>
<B>suppliant, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> asking or praying humbly and earnestly; supplicating. <BR> <I>Ex. lifting suppliant hands in a prayer for mercy. He sent a suppliant message for help.</I> (SYN) beseeching. <DD><I>noun </I> a person who asks humbly and earnestly. <BR> <I>Ex. She knelt as a suppliant at the altar.</I> (SYN) supplicant. adv. <B>suppliantly.</B> </DL>
<B>supplicat, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a formal petition for a degree or its equivalent at an English university. </DL>
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<B>supplicate, </B>verb, <B>-cated,</B> <B>-cating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to beg (a person) humbly and earnestly; address an entreaty to. <BR> <I>Ex. The mother supplicated the judge to pardon her son.</I> (SYN) entreat, beseech, petition. <DD><B> 2. </B>to beg humbly for (something). <DD><I>v.i. </I> to pray humbly; present a humble petition. adv. <B>supplicatingly.</B> </DL>
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<B>supplication, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the action of supplicating. <BR> <I>Ex. He knelt in supplication. Their grave, white faces lifted in a single supplication to the ship (Thomas Wolfe).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>Usually, <B>supplications.</B> a humble and earnest request or prayer. <BR> <I>Ex. Supplications to God arose from all the churches of the besieged town.</I> </DL>
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<B>supplicator, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person or thing that supplicates; suppliant. </DL>
