Usually means: Lying on back, facing upward.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. supine: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. supine: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. supine: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. supine: Collins English Dictionary
  5. supine: Vocabulary.com
  6. Supine, supine: Wordnik
  7. supine: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. supine: Wiktionary
  9. supine: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. supine: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. supine: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. supine: Dictionary.com
  13. supine: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Supine (disambiguation), Supine (temperament), Supine: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Supine: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. supine: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. supine: Rhymezone
  18. Supine: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. supine: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. supine: Free Dictionary
  21. supine: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. supine: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. supine: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. supine: Legal dictionary

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Supine: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Lay Terms for Consent Forms (No longer online)
  5. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  6. supine: Medical dictionary
  7. Supine: Brain Injury
  8. Supine: Drug Medical Dictionary
  9. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. supine: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

(Note: See supinely as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Lying on its back.
adjective:  (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.
adjective:  (figuratively) Reluctant to take action due to indifference or moral weakness; apathetic or passive towards something.
adjective:  (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.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (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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