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.
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prostate vs. prostrate
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exhausted vs. prostrate
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flatten vs. prostrate
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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
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