What's the difference between devastate and prostrate?

Devastate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It appears that irrespective of the elucidation of the nature of the putative aetiological factor (presumed to be viral) in MS, the arrest and reversal of T cell-related events within the CNS in this devastating condition represent feasible goals and should remain a major target for some time to come.
  • (2) Samaras said: A "Grexit", as it is called, would be devastating for Greece and detrimental to Europe.
  • (3) While winds gusting to 170mph caused significant damage, the devastation in areas such as Tacloban – where scenes are reminiscent of the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami – was principally the work of the 6-metre-high storm surge, which carried away even the concrete buildings in which many people sought shelter.
  • (4) The Financial Services Authority is meant to be the City's watchdog but "devastating" internal documents reveal it has secretly co-ordinated high-level lobbying strategies with the industry it is supposed to police.
  • (5) The government acknowledged it had been overwhelmed by the devastation from the deadliest quake in Nepal in over 80 years.
  • (6) Mark Rasch, a cyber crime expert quoted by the FT, meanwhile said recent events have been “a serious and devastating attack to [Sony’s] reputation and image”, and his opinion is played out by a new YouGov poll into the public perception of Sony’s brand.
  • (7) "When people don't feel they have a reason to stay out of trouble, the consequences for communities can be devastating – as we saw last August," said Darra Singh, chair of the panel.
  • (8) Newcastle United are “devastated” by their relegation from the Premier League, according to the club’s managing director Lee Charnley.
  • (9) In order to reduce the devasting effects of enteric diseases among children born to mothers in tropical countries of Africa and Asia, it is imperative that all health workers understand the cultural and social perceptions of their clients towards the disease in question.
  • (10) All the personality, dignity and humanity of a person are devastated by this torture.
  • (11) Age UK believes McDonald's human rights have been breached and that there could be "extremely adverse and devastating consequences for many thousands of older people if other councils take similar decisions to save money".
  • (12) And then, as the Guardian revealed at the weekend, there is the potentially devastating effect of the boundary changes, which can’t really be brought in before an early election but will radically tilt the field by 2020.
  • (13) He said: "[That] could be devastating for the renewables industry.
  • (14) To say that the loss of BB King is devastating to the blues community is an understatement.
  • (15) 'Devastated' Peter Greste calls on Egypt's president to pardon trio Read more “It’s ironic that the conviction was for tarnishing Egypt’s reputation when ... this [case] is what’s tarnished Egypt’s image,” Clooney told BBC News.
  • (16) The report, extracts of which were published by the investigative news website Exaro , is said to include “devastating detail” of the corporation’s “sheer scale of awareness” of the late star’s activities.
  • (17) Although anterior and posterior traumatic displacement of cervical vertebrae are commonly noted, and the devastating neurological deficits associated with these injuries have been amply defined, lateral displacement with fractures has been rarely recognized, and the clinical significance of this injury has been overlooked.
  • (18) Bernard Hogan-Howe, the Met commissioner, said a report revealing the undercover officers had spied on the family of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence was “devastating” for Scotland Yard and “one of the worst days that I have seen as a police officer”.
  • (19) The case for halting British arms sales to Saudi Arabia has been evident, not only on moral grounds, since civilians started dying in the conflict devastating Yemen.
  • (20) Devastating neurologic complications can be avoided or alleviated in a great proportion of patients undergoing radiation therapy for cerebral metastases and spinal cord compression.

Prostrate


Definition:

  • (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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Symptoms include nausea, vomiting, dizziness, and prostration.
  • (2) The clinical course was characterized by severe prostration, persistently high spiking fever, and continuous development of enlarged lymph nodes.
  • (3) This rare esophageal rupture should be suspected in any chest injury patients, especially those characterized by extreme cyanosis, dyspnea, shock, and prostration incompatible with thoracic cage injury.
  • (4) In 352 patients affected with chronic lymphatic leukemia (CLL) the authors simultaneously detected a solid second tumour 22 times (= 6.22%) (6 cancers of the prostrate, 5 cancers of the skin, 4 cancers of the uterus, 2 cancers of the stomach, 2 cancers of the lung, one case of rectal and mamma cancer each and one case of eye sarcoma).
  • (5) The cranial tumor disappeared after irradiation but he died of metastases and general prostration.
  • (6) Severe hypotension, fluid retention, watery diarrhea, and central nervous deficits culminated in a profound prostration as the dose-limiting toxicity.
  • (7) The specificity, sedimentation coefficient on sucrose gradient, and sensitivity to sulfhydryl reagents and heat of this dihydrotestosterone-binding protein are typical of the cytoplasmic androgen receptor from other androgen target tissues such as prostrate.
  • (8) Complications were intractable fever, obstruction of the cannula, and prostration, resulting in interruption and discontinuity of this strategy within 11 weeks (in all cases).
  • (9) Scotland regained the lead after 53 minutes when they played on as a Malta player lay prostrate near the halfway line following a challenge by Hanley and Martin converted a low cross from eight yards.
  • (10) At variance in all controls, gastrointestinal symptoms were long lasting and associated with major prostration due to electrolyte and fluid loss.
  • (11) Though farmers comprise just 0.3% of the population of England and 1.4% of the rural population , ministers treat them and their lobbyists as an idol before which they must prostrate themselves.
  • (12) Administration of .2 ml of LHAS resulted in a significant reduction in the weights of the dorsolateral prostrate, coagulating glands, seminal vesicles, and Cowpers glands compared with intact controls (p. less than .05), and the weights were comparable with those in castrate controls.
  • (13) I have lots of friends in the Jewish community, and, yes, I can prostrate myself no further, it's just a stupid thing to say, and I didn't even … I accept I said it, and I am conscious that my speech isn't always as balanced as it should be."
  • (14) Five patients over the age of 55 years showed slight enlargement of the prostrate.
  • (15) A thousand came to his fringe event, prostrated themselves – a "hot" Tory in the era of austerity!
  • (16) By contrast, toxic doses of l-homoarginine, l-lysine, l-leucine and ammonium acetate caused dyspnoea, extreme prostration, and in some cases coma in 15-30min., and increased the concentration of ammonia of blood significantly and the concentration of glutamine of brain slightly.
  • (17) Difficult though it may be, we must prostrate ourselves in the face of public sentiment and continue to do so until there is genuine belief that we regret what has happened and the part we played in it".
  • (18) But as Theresa May prostrates Britain before her head-chopping friends in Saudi Arabia, her strategy is clear.
  • (19) Calves fed sporocysts of Sarcocystis isolated from the feces of dogs and coyotes became anorectic, lost weight, and became anemic and prostrate, and died.
  • (20) The disease was characterised by fever, ataxia, posterior paresis, circling and hyperaesthesia progressing to prostration.