'Prostrate' definitions:
Definition of 'prostrate'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Stretched out and lying at full length along the ground; "found himself lying flat on the floor" [syn: flat, prostrate]
adjective
Lying face downward [syn: prone, prostrate]
verb
Get into a prostrate position, as in submission [syn: prostrate, bow down]
verb
Render helpless or defenseless; "They prostrated the enemy"
verb
Throw down flat, as on the ground; "She prostrated herself with frustration"
Definition of 'Prostrate'
From: GCIDE
- Prostrate \Pros"trate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prostrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Prostrating.]
- 1. To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants. --Evelyn. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. --Milman. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to reduce; as, a person prostrated by fever. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Prostrate'
From: GCIDE
- Prostrate \Pros"trate\, a. [L. prostratus, p. p. of prosternere to prostrate; pro before, forward + sternere to spread out, throw down. See Stratum.]
- 1. Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate. --Elyot. [1913 Webster]
- Groveling and prostrate on yon lake of fire. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Lying at mercy, as a supplicant. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Lying in a humble, lowly, or suppliant posture. [1913 Webster]
- Prostrate fall Before him reverent, and there confess Humbly our faults. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Bot.) Trailing on the ground; procumbent. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'prostrate'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abject,
- accumbent,
- adorant,
- adoring,
- afflict,
- aggrieve,
- all in,
- anguish,
- backscratching,
- beat,
- beat down,
- beat up,
- beaten,
- bedfast,
- bedridden,
- beggarly,
- bend,
- blow down,
- blow over,
- bone-weary,
- bootlicking,
- bow and scrape,
- bow down,
- bowl down,
- bowl over,
- break,
- break down,
- bring down,
- bring low,
- bring to tears,
- broken,
- broken-down,
- brokenhearted,
- brought down,
- brought low,
- bulldog,
- bulldoze,
- burn down,
- burn out,
- bushed,
- cast down,
- chop down,
- confined,
- conquer,
- conquered,
- couch,
- couchant,
- couche,
- cowering,
- crawl,
- crawling,
- cringe,
- cringing,
- crippled,
- crouched,
- crouching,
- crush,
- crushed,
- cut down,
- cut up,
- dash,
- dash down,
- dashed,
- dead,
- dead-and-alive,
- dead-tired,
- deadbeat,
- debased,
- debilitate,
- deck,
- decumbent,
- deferential,
- deflate,
- demoralize,
- demoralized,
- depressed,
- desolate,
- desolated,
- devotional,
- devout,
- disabled,
- disarm,
- disarmed,
- disqualified,
- do in,
- do up,
- dog-tired,
- dog-weary,
- done,
- done in,
- done up,
- down,
- downcast,
- downthrown,
- drained,
- draped,
- draw tears,
- drop,
- embitter,
- enchain,
- enervate,
- exhaust,
- exhausted,
- fag,
- fag out,
- fagged out,
- fallen,
- fatigue,
- fatigued,
- fawning,
- fell,
- felled,
- fetch down,
- flag,
- flat,
- flatten,
- flattened,
- flattering,
- floor,
- floored,
- footlicking,
- frazzle,
- gag,
- gone,
- grieve,
- ground,
- grovel,
- groveling,
- hamstring,
- hamstrung,
- handcuff,
- hangdog,
- harass,
- heart-stricken,
- heart-struck,
- heartbroken,
- helpless,
- hew down,
- hobble,
- hog-tie,
- hog-tied,
- horizontal,
- hospitalized,
- hot,
- humble,
- humbled,
- imploring,
- impotent,
- in childbed,
- in hospital,
- in the dust,
- incapacitated,
- ingratiating,
- inundate,
- inundated,
- invalidated,
- invalided,
- jade,
- knee-high,
- kneel,
- knock down,
- knock out,
- knock over,
- knock up,
- knocked flat,
- knocked out,
- kowtow,
- laid low,
- laid up,
- lay level,
- lay low,
- lay out,
- level,
- lie down,
- lolling,
- lounging,
- low,
- low-built,
- low-hung,
- low-level,
- low-leveled,
- low-lying,
- low-set,
- low-statured,
- lowered,
- lying,
- lying down,
- manacle,
- master,
- mastered,
- mealymouthed,
- mow down,
- muzzle,
- neap,
- neurasthenic,
- obeisant,
- obsequious,
- on bended knee,
- oppress,
- overcome,
- overfatigue,
- overpower,
- overpowered,
- override,
- overstrain,
- overtire,
- overweary,
- overwhelm,
- overwhelmed,
- paralyze,
- paralyzed,
- parasitic,
- played out,
- poop,
- poop out,
- pooped,
- pooped out,
- powerless,
- prayerful,
- precative,
- precatory,
- precipitate,
- procumbent,
- prone,
- prostrate before,
- prostrated,
- psych out,
- pull down,
- put down,
- quell,
- quelled,
- rase,
- raze,
- ready to drop,
- recline,
- reclining,
- recumbent,
- reduce,
- reduced,
- reduced to jelly,
- reposing,
- resupine,
- reverent,
- reverential,
- ride down,
- ruin,
- ruined,
- runty,
- send headlong,
- servile,
- shake,
- shaken,
- short,
- shot to pieces,
- sick abed,
- silence,
- smash,
- smashed,
- sniveling,
- solemn,
- sorrow,
- spent,
- sponging,
- sprawled,
- sprawling,
- spread,
- spread-eagle,
- squat,
- squatty,
- steamroller,
- stooped,
- strangle,
- stretched out,
- stricken,
- stumpy,
- subdue,
- subdued,
- subjugate,
- subjugated,
- submerged,
- submissive,
- submit,
- subservient,
- sunk,
- sunken,
- supinate,
- supine,
- suppliant,
- supplicant,
- supplicatory,
- suppress,
- suppressed,
- sycophantic,
- take down,
- tear down,
- throttle,
- throw,
- throw down,
- timeserving,
- tire,
- tire out,
- tire to death,
- tired out,
- tired to death,
- toadeating,
- toadying,
- toadyish,
- topple,
- torment,
- trample down,
- trample underfoot,
- tread underfoot,
- trip,
- truckle,
- truckling,
- truss up,
- tucker,
- tuckered out,
- tumble,
- unbrace,
- undo,
- undone,
- unelevated,
- unglued,
- unman,
- unmanned,
- unnerve,
- unnerved,
- unstring,
- unstrung,
- upset,
- use up,
- used up,
- vanquish,
- vanquished,
- venerational,
- venerative,
- washed-up,
- weaken,
- wear,
- wear down,
- wear on,
- wear out,
- wearied,
- weary,
- weary unto death,
- whack down,
- whacked,
- wilt,
- wind,
- wiped out,
- worn out,
- worn-out,
- worshipful,
- worshiping