Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to supple
Participle: suppled
Gerund: suppling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | supple |
| you | supple |
| he;she;it | supples |
| we | supple |
| you | supple |
| they | supple |
Perfect
| I | have suppled |
| you | have suppled |
| he;she;it | has suppled |
| we | have suppled |
| you | have suppled |
| they | have suppled |
Past
| I | suppled |
| you | suppled |
| he;she;it | suppled |
| we | suppled |
| you | suppled |
| they | suppled |
Pluperfect
| I | had suppled |
| you | had suppled |
| he;she;it | had suppled |
| we | had suppled |
| you | had suppled |
| they | had suppled |
Future
| I | will supple |
| you | will supple |
| he;she;it | will supple |
| we | will supple |
| you | will supple |
| they | will supple |
Future Perfect
| I | will have suppled |
| you | will have suppled |
| he;she;it | will have suppled |
| we | will have suppled |
| you | will have suppled |
| they | will have suppled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | supple |
| you | supple |
| he;she;it | supple |
| we | supple |
| you | supple |
| they | supple |
Perfect
| I | have suppled |
| you | have suppled |
| he;she;it | have suppled |
| we | have suppled |
| you | have suppled |
| they | have suppled |
Imperfect
| I | suppled |
| you | suppled |
| he;she;it | suppled |
| we | suppled |
| you | suppled |
| they | suppled |
Pluperfect
| I | had suppled |
| you | had suppled |
| he;she;it | had suppled |
| we | had suppled |
| you | had suppled |
| they | had suppled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would supple |
| you | would supple |
| he;she;it | would supple |
| we | would supple |
| you | would supple |
| they | would supple |
Perfect
| I | would have suppled |
| you | would have suppled |
| he;she;it | would have suppled |
| we | would have suppled |
| you | would have suppled |
| they | would have suppled |
Imperative
| you | supple |
| we | Let's supple |
| you | supple |
Verbs conjugated like 'supple'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'supple'
sipple,
supply,
apple,
dapple,
dumple,
hopple,
nipple,
popple,
purple,
ripple,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English souple, from Old French souple, soupple (“soft, lithe, yielding”), from Latin supplic-, supplex (“suppliant, submissive, kneeling”), of uncertain formation. Either from sub + plicō (“bend”) (compare complex), or from sub + plācō (“placate”). More at sub-, placate.
Sample Sentences
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The flesh therewith she suppled and did steepe [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 33:]
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The Stones (a Miracle to Mortal View, / But long Tradition makes it paſs for true) / Did firſt the Rigour of their Kind expel, / And ſuppled into ſoftneſs, as they fell; […] [1717, John Dryden, “Book I”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 18:]
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They should supple our stiff wilfulness. [a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, Of contentment, patience and resignation to the will of God:]
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a mother persisting till she had bent her daughter's mind and suppled her will [1693, [John Locke], “§78”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC:]