prostrate

[Pros·trate]

The verb prostrate means "to make helpless or defenseless." Illness, injury, food poisoning, grief any of these things can prostrate people, or lying down in a helpless position.

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Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate

Verb
render helpless or defenseless; "They prostrated the enemy"

Verb
throw down flat, as on the ground; "She prostrated herself with frustration"

Verb
get into a prostrate position, as in submission

Adjective S.
stretched out and lying at full length along the ground; "found himself lying flat on the floor"

Adjective S.
lying face downward

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a.
Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate.

a.
Lying at mercy, as a supplicant.

a.
Lying in a humble, lowly, or suppliant posture.

a.
Trailing on the ground; procumbent.

v. t.
To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants.

v. t.
to overthrow; to demolish; to destroy; to deprive of efficiency; to ruin; as, to prostrate a village; to prostrate a government; to prostrate law or justice.

v. t.
To throw down, or cause to fall in humility or adoration; to cause to bow in humble reverence; used reflexively; as, he prostrated himself.

v. t.
To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to reduce; as, a person prostrated by fever.


Prostrate

Pros"trate , a. [L. prostratus, p. p. of prosternere to prostrate; pro before, forward + sternere to spread out, throw down. See Stratum.] 1. Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate Elyot.
Groveling and prostrate on yon lake of fire.
2. Lying at mercy, as a supplicant. Dryden. 3. Lying in a humble, lowly, or suppliant posture.
Prostrate fall Before him reverent, and there confess Humbly our faults.
4. (Bot.) Trailing on the ground; procumbent.

Prostrate

Pros"trate , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prostrated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Prostrating.] 1. To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants. Evelyn. 2. to overthrow; to demolish; to destroy; to deprive of efficiency; to ruin; as, to prostrate a village; to prostrate a government; to prostrate law or justice. 3. To throw down, or cause to fall in humility or adoration; to cause to bow in humble reverence; used reflexively; as, he prostrated himself. Milman. 4. To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to reduce; as, a person prostrated by fever.

Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate

To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants.

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Usage Examples

Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.

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