Prostrate(a.) Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate.
Prostrate(a.) Lying at mercy, as a supplicant.
Prostrate(a.) Lying in a humble, lowly, or suppliant posture.
Prostrate(a.) Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
Prostrate(v. t.) To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants.
Prostrate(v. t.) 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.
Prostrate(v. t.) To throw down, or cause to fall in humility or adoration; to cause to bow in humble reverence; used reflexively; as, he prostrated himself.
Prostrate(v. t.) To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to reduce; as, a person prostrated by fever.
Prostrated(imp. & p. p.) of Prostrate
Prostrating(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prostrate
Prostration(n.) The act of prostrating, throwing down, or laying fiat; as, the prostration of the body.
Prostration(n.) The act of falling down, or of bowing in humility or adoration; primarily, the act of falling on the face, but usually applied to kneeling or bowing in reverence and worship.
Prostration(n.) The condition of being prostrate; great depression; lowness; dejection; as, a postration of spirits.
Prostration(n.) A latent, not an exhausted, state of the vital energies; great oppression of natural strength and vigor.
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