单词	supple
释义	supplesup‧ple /ˈsʌpəl/ adjective Word Origin WORD ORIGINsupple Origin: 1200-1300 Old French souple, from Latin supplex ‘bending under, willing to obey’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Exercise will help keep your joints and muscles supple. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS A slice of black bread, supple as cardboard. But her writing was also growing slightly more supple. Only one small, white-highlighted ripple showed where the supple arrow of his body had pierced the water. Sometimes there was a new seriousness, the supple posture of childhood exchanged for squared shoulders and a stiff spine. Stoked by heat, they said, the thick layer of rock known as the mantle could be supple enough to flow. The most important thing is to be supple, to be flexible. These minute, supple spheres rest invisibly on the surface of the skin. 1someone who is supple bends and moves easily and gracefully OPP  stiff:  She exercises every day to keep herself supple.2leather, skin, wood etc that is supple is soft and bends easily—suppleness noun [uncountable]
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