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Meanings of supine in English
Synonyms
Examples for "resistless"
Examples for "resistless"
1
Always these went in closest touch with the resisted but resistless power.
2
There was something resistless in the way he took her for granted.
3
The cold was not severe, but the storm was quiet and resistless.
4
A mighty, resistless movement carried the human stream to meet the river.
5
And I saw and felt its steady, resistless heaving, insidious and terrible.
1
Precipitate, unresisting, are the day in the train and the heedless night.
2
The woman took the prayer-book out of his unresisting hand, and said:
3
He stood up and took her unresisting hands in both his own.
4
Unremonstrating, unresisting endurance, then, is the point emphasised in the lovely metaphor.
5
The priests dragged him out unresisting, and forced him down the stairs.
Usage of supine in English
1
There was good to excellent agreement between supine and upright IVC measurements.
2
An increased volume of bowel was also noted in the supine position.
3
The recordings were undertaken with the patients in the supine position only.
4
PMID: 2706643 Simultaneously, supine arterial pressure was measured with a cuff manometer.
5
Pelvic perforation and failed access were comparable between supine and prone position.
6
We would not lie supine under the assault of the blundering bully.
7
And then, for the first time, she became supine in his arms.
8
Richard shrugged, as well as he could shrug from a supine position.
9
The officers cringed back under his glance, but stood supine and inactive.
10
He began to sink slowly back into the blankets, supine and inert.
11
Erect or supine, these colossal statues were strewn all over the island.
12
Ronald fruitlessly strove to rouse him from this state of supine despondency.
13
The corpse lay supine with feet together, arms tucked to its sides.
14
But generally they lay supine, saturated with light and its cleansing power.
15
Languid and spiritless, they lay supine, or crawled listlessly and aimlessly about.
16
Violence slays its thousands, but supine negligence slays its tens of thousands.
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Supine through the time
Supine across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common