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PROSTRATE
flat, prostrate
(adjective) stretched out and lying at full length along the ground; “found himself lying flat on the floor”
prone, prostrate
(adjective) lying face downward
prostrate
(verb) render helpless or defenseless; “They prostrated the enemy”
prostrate
(verb) throw down flat, as on the ground; “She prostrated herself with frustration”
prostrate, bow down
(verb) get into a prostrate position, as in submission
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
prostrate (not comparable)
Lying flat, face-down.
Synonym: prone
Antonym: supine
(figuratively) Emotionally devastated.
Physically incapacitated from environmental exposure or debilitating disease.
(botany) Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
Verb
prostrate (third-person singular simple present prostrates, present participle prostrating, simple past and past participle prostrated)
(often, reflexive) To lie flat or face-down.
(also, figurative) To throw oneself down in submission.
To cause to lie down, to flatten.
(figuratively) To overcome or overpower.
Usage notes
• Prostrate and prostate are often confused, in spelling if not in meaning.
Anagrams
• Perrottas
Source: Wiktionary
Pros"trate, a. Etym: [L. prostratus, p. p. of prosternere to prostrate; pro before, forward + sternere to spread out, throw down. See Stratum.]
1. Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate Elyot. Groveling and prostrate on yon lake of fire. Milton.
2. Lying at mercy, as a supplicant. Dryden.
3. Lying in a humble, lowly, or suppliant posture. Prostrate fall Before him reverent, and there confess Humbly our faults. Milton.
4. (Bot.)
Definition: Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
Pros"trate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prostrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Prostrating.]
1. To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants. Evelyn.
2. 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.
3. To throw down, or cause to fall in humility or adoration; to cause to bow in humble reverence; used reflexively; as, he prostrated himself. Milman.
4. To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to reduce; as, a person prostrated by fever.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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