Sekirov Dictionary

prostrate

UK /ˈpɹɒstɹeɪt/US /ˈpɹɑstɹeɪt/

adjective 5
verb 4
forms 5

adjective5

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Lying flat, face-down.
- Prostrate fall / Before him reverent, and there confess / Humbly our faults. — 1667
Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
•
Physically incapacitated from environmental exposure or debilitating disease.
- He was prostrate from the extreme heat.
(figurative) Emotionally devastated.
(no longer used) Prostrated.

verb4

[with oneself] To lie flat or face-down.
•
To throw oneself down in submission.
- Those who had the privilege of approaching him, had to prostrate themselves before him in profound humility[…] — 1922
•
To cause to lie down, to flatten.
- How many of these mighty pines were to be prostrated under that approaching tempest! — 1835
•
(figurative) To overcome or overpower.
- Why this very minute she's prostrated with grief. — 1936

forms

prostrated · prostrating · prostrates · prostrateth · prostratest

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