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Prostrate   /prˈɑstreɪt/   Listen
adjective
Prostrate  adj.  
1.
Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate. "Groveling and prostrate on yon lake of fire."
2.
Lying at mercy, as a supplicant.
3.
Lying in a humble, lowly, or suppliant posture. "Prostrate fall Before him reverent, and there confess Humbly our faults."
4.
(Bot.) Trailing on the ground; procumbent.


verb
Prostrate  v. t.  (past & past part. prostrated; pres. part. prostrating)  
1.
To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants.
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.
4.
To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to reduce; as, a person prostrated by fever.





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"Prostrate" Quotes from Famous Books



... for her wasn't an illusion? He did love her! Didn't he? And she said she loved him, too, as he was kneeling before her prostrate figure, kissing her eyes. Yes, they loved one another! It was merely a dark cloud which had passed, now. Ugly thoughts, born of solitude and loneliness. She would never, never again stay alone. They fell asleep in each other's arms, ...
— Married • August Strindberg
... he applies the theory on a grand scale, and, in his hands, experience daily furnishes fresh verifications of the theory. At his first nod the French prostrate themselves obediently, and there remain, as in a natural position; the lower class, the peasants and the soldiers, with animal fidelity, and the upper class, the dignitaries and the functionaries, with Byzantine servility.—The republicans, on ...
— The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 5 (of 6) - The Modern Regime, Volume 1 (of 2)(Napoleon I.) • Hippolyte A. Taine
... hurrah!" burst Buttons, the Senator, and Dick, as each snatched a rifle from the prostrate bandits, and hastily tore ...
— The Dodge Club - or, Italy in 1859 • James De Mille
... of wicked people, when thrown prostrate upon beds of affliction, calling upon the Lord, and even promising that if he would raise them up again they would do better. But how often does it turn out that such promises are either wantonly disregarded or thoughtlessly ...
— Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary - Collated from his Diary by Benjamin Funk • John Kline
... southeast the forest lay prone like a field of wind-swept corn. Huge oaks and pines were tossed in grotesque windrows. Here and there gnarled roots projected above the prostrate foliage. The once proud trees lay like brave soldiers; their limbs rigid in the contorted attitudes ...
— John Henry Smith - A Humorous Romance of Outdoor Life • Frederick Upham Adams


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