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Definition of Prostrate
1. Adjective. Stretched out and lying at full length along the ground. "Found himself lying flat on the floor"
2. Verb. Get into a prostrate position, as in submission.
3. Adjective. Lying face downward.
4. Verb. Render helpless or defenseless. "They prostrated the enemy"
5. Verb. Throw down flat, as on the ground. "She prostrated herself with frustration"
Definition of Prostrate
1. a. Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate.
2. v. t. To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants.
Definition of Prostrate
1. Adjective. Lying flat, facedown. ¹
2. Adjective. Emotionally devastated. ¹
3. Adjective. Physically incapacitated from environmental exposure or debilitating disease. ¹
4. Verb. (Often reflexive) To lie flat or facedown. ¹
5. Verb. To throw oneself down in submission (also figuratively). ¹
6. Verb. To cause to lie down, to flatten; (figuratively) to overcome or overpower. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Prostrate
1. [v -TRATED, -TRATING, -TRATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prostrate
Literary usage of Prostrate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1823)
"I ask'd of Time, for whom those temples rose, That prostrate by his hand in
silence lie. His lips disdain'd the mystery to disclose, And, borne on swifter ..."
2. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1886)
"Farther down the bank, in a small ravine called the Rawana ndfd, is found a
prostrate figure 18^ feet in length, rudely carved in bold relief on four basalt ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"That he should confide in the justice of his cause, and the diadem from bis head,
in the view of both armies, fell prostrate at the feet of his conqueror. ..."
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