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prostrate
[ pros-treyt ]
verb (used with object)
, pros·trat·ed, pros·trat·ing.
- to cast (oneself ) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.
- to lay flat, as on the ground.
- to throw down level with the ground.
- to overthrow, overcome, or reduce to helplessness.
- to reduce to physical weakness or exhaustion.
adjective
- lying flat or at full length, as on the ground.
- lying face down on the ground, as in token of humility, submission, or adoration.
- overthrown, overcome, or helpless:
a country left prostrate by natural disasters.
- physically weak or exhausted.
- utterly dejected or depressed; disconsolate.
- Botany. (of a plant or stem) lying flat on the ground.
prostrate
adjective
- lying with the face downwards, as in submission
- exhausted physically or emotionally
- helpless or defenceless
- (of a plant) growing closely along the ground
verb
- to bow or cast (oneself) down, as in submission
- to lay or throw down flat, as on the ground
- to make helpless or defenceless
- to make exhausted
prostrate
/ prŏs′trāt′ /
- Growing flat along the ground. Creeping jenny, pennyroyal, and many species of ivy have a prostrate growth habit.
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Derived Forms
- prosˈtration, noun
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Other Words From
- pros·tra·tive [pros, -tr, uh, -tiv], adjective
- prostra·tor noun
- un·prostrat·ed adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of prostrate1
First recorded in 1350–1400; (for the adjective) Middle English prostrat, from Latin prōstrātus “lying flat,” past participle of prōsternere “to lie flat, knock down, overthrow,” from prō- pro- 1 + sternere “to lay out, stretch, spread”; verb derivative of the adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of prostrate1
C14: from Latin prōsternere to throw to the ground, from prō- before + sternere to lay low
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Example Sentences
Prostrate she fell on the floor; but hearing a waiter say, 'Up stairs, madam, you may have a room to yourself.'
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Prostrate or ascending, much branched; leaves round-obovate to rhomboidal, 3–10 long.
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Prostrate beside him, Sembobitis and Menkera worshipped, their faces touching the stone.
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Prostrate under the dread of death, her innermost nature—stripped of the concealments of her later life—was revealed to view.
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Prostrate by his side lay the prince, in a state of insensibility, the blood faintly oozing from a wound in his arm.
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