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.

Compare prostrate with other words:

prostrate vs. prostrated

prostrate vs. rostrate

prostrate vs. tired

prostrate vs. sarment

erect vs. prostrate

prostate vs. prostrate

prostrate vs. reclining

exhausted vs. prostrate

prostatitis vs. prostrate

prostrate vs. prostration

flatten vs. prostrate

procumbent vs. prostrate

disease vs. prostrate

debilitating vs. prostrate

exposure vs. prostrate

incapacitate vs. prostrate

devastate vs. prostrate

flat vs. prostrate

prostrate vs. supine

prostrate vs. recumbent

kowtow vs. prostrate

prostrate vs. stoop

prostrate vs. smell

fall vs. prostrate

prone vs. prostrate