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Prostrate

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Verb

1. bow down, prostrate

get into a prostrate position, as in submission

2. prostrate

render helpless or defenseless

Example Sentences:
'They prostrated the enemy'

3. prostrate

throw down flat, as on the ground

Example Sentences:
'She prostrated herself with frustration'

Adjective

4. flat, prostrate

stretched out and lying at full length along the ground

Example Sentences:
'found himself lying flat on the floor'

5. prone, prostrate

lying face downward

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Prostrate

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adjective (ˈprɒstreɪt )
1. 
lying with the face downwards, as in submission
2. 
exhausted physically or emotionally
3. 
helpless or defenceless
4. 
(of a plant) growing closely along the ground
verb (prɒˈstreɪt ) (transitive)
5. 
to bow or cast (oneself) down, as in submission
6. 
to lay or throw down flat, as on the ground
7. 
to make helpless or defenceless
8. 
to make exhausted

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Prostrate

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adjective
1. 
lying with the face downward in demonstration of great humility or abject submission
2. 
lying flat, prone, or supine
3. 
thrown or fallen to the ground
4. 
a. 
laid low; completely overcome; helpless
prostrate with grief
b. 
in a state of physical exhaustion or weakness
5.  Botany
growing on the ground; trailing
verb transitiveWord forms: ˈprosˌtrated or ˈprosˌtrating
6. 
to throw or put in a prostrate position; lay flat on the ground
7. 
to lay low; overcome; exhaust or subjugate

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Prostrate

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tr.v. pros·trat·ed, pros·trat·ing, pros·trates
1. To put or throw flat with the face down, as in submission or adoration: "He did not simply sit and meditate, he also knelt down, sometimes even prostrated himself" (Iris Murdoch).
2. To cause to lie flat: The wind prostrated the young trees.
3. To reduce to extreme weakness or incapacitation; overcome: an illness that prostrated an entire family; a nation that was prostrated by years of civil war.
adj.
1. Lying face down, as in submission or adoration.
2. Lying flat or at full length.
3. Reduced to extreme weakness or incapacitation; overcome.
4. Botany Growing flat along the ground.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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