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How to pronounce “supine”
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Pronunciation guide for supine
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of supine with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 1 YouTube example
- Real speech example
- The Sparsholt Affair
to a young man so supine that he might have been asleep.
- Definition summary
- Lying on its back.
Example 1 of 1
How to pronounce supine
The Sparsholt Affair
to a young man so supine that he might have been asleep.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “supine”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Lying on its back.
- (of the hand, forearm or foot) Turned facing toward the body or upward: with the thumb outward (palm up), or with the big toe raised relative to the little toe. A foot in the prone, normal, and supine positions.
- (figuratively) Reluctant to take action due to indifference or moral weakness; apathetic or passive towards something.
- (rare, now poetic) Inclining or leaning backward; inclined, sloping.
- [Noun]
- (grammar, also attributively) In Latin and other languages: a type of verbal noun used in the ablative and accusative cases, which shares the same stem as the passive participle.
- (grammar, also attributively) In Swedish, Faroese, Icelandic and Old Norse: a verb form that combines with an inflection of ha/hafa/hava to form the present perfect and pluperfect tenses.
- (grammar, also attributively) (obsolete terminology) The 'to'-prefixed infinitive in English or other Germanic languages, so named because the infinitive was regarded as a verbal noun and the 'to'-prefixed form of it was seen as the dative form of the verbal noun; the full infinitive.
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