All 3 Uses of
supine
in
Nine Stories
- When his coughing spell was over and he saw his daughter stretched out supine on the moonlit ground, Dufarge put two and two together.†
Story 4 *supine = lying down face upward
- When it became quite unendurable to listen to from a supine position, I got out of bed, put on my slippers, and went over in the dark and sat down on one of the floor cushions.†
Story 8
- He was lying supine, in just the trousers of his pajamas, a lighted cigarette in his right hand.†
Story 9
Definitions:
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(1)
(supine) lying down face upward
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, supine can mean to offer no resistance.