prostrate
About 1.17 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Lying flat, face-down.
- adjective Emotionally devastated.
- adjective Physically incapacitated from environmental exposure or debilitating disease.
He was prostrate from the extreme heat.
- adjective Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
- adjective Prostrated.
- verb To lie flat or face-down.
- verb To throw oneself down in submission.
- verb To cause to lie down, to flatten.
Similar words
prone bow down flat unerect prostatic prostate face-down flattened recumbent horizontal
Often followed by
on themselves before and at in form himself body
Word family
prostrated prostrates prostrating
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