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Synonyms for supine

Adjective

1. supine, resupine, unerect (vs. erect)
usage: lying face upward
2. resistless, supine, unresisting, passive (vs. active), inactive
usage: offering no resistance; "resistless hostages"; "No other colony showed such supine, selfish helplessness in allowing her own border citizens to be mercilessly harried"- Theodore Roosevelt
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