prostrate
adjEtymology
From Middle English prostraten (“(reflexive) to prostrate; (with doun) to fall down in a state of humility or submission”), from prostrat(e) (“prostrate, prostrated”, also used as the past participle of prostraten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), from Latin prōstrātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.
- derived from prōstrātus
Definitions
Lying flat, face-down.
- Prostrate fall / Before him reverent, and there confess / Humbly our faults.
- Finally almost the whole world was combined against the evil-doers, who are now prostrate before us.
Emotionally devastated.
Physically incapacitated from environmental exposure or debilitating disease.
- He was prostrate from the extreme heat.
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Trailing on the ground
Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
Prostrated.
To lie flat or face-down.
To throw oneself down in submission.
- Those who had the privilege of approaching him, had to prostrate themselves before him in profound humility[…]
To cause to lie down, to flatten.
- How many of these mighty pines were to be prostrated under that approaching tempest!
To overcome or overpower.
- Why this very minute she's prostrated with grief.
The neighborhood
- neighborprostration
- neighborkowtow
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA