supple
suh puhl
- v make pliant and flexible
These boots are not yet suppled by frequent use - s moving and bending with ease
- s (used of e.g. personality traits) readily adaptable
a supple mind - s (used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely
- It appears at the same time as The Lives of the Muses (HarperCollins; 416 pages), a supple work of cultural history by novelist Francine Prose, whose subject is the women who .
- Spain may have been a center of Catholic piety, its eyes always fastened on heaven, but its paintings were full of vital, supple people made of real flesh and blood.
- Thanks to her supple, dulcet soprano and winning stage personality -- and with the powerful patronage of Met artistic director James Levine -- she has risen to worldwide fame in .