Definition of prostrate

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Prostrate (a.) Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate..

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Grovel :: Grovel (adv.) To creep on the earth, or with the face to the ground; to lie prone, or move uneasily with the body prostrate on the earth; to lie fiat on one's belly, expressive of abjectness; to crawl..
Prostrate :: 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 :: Prostrate (a.) Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
Fall :: Fall (v. t.) To cease to be erect; to take suddenly a recumbent posture; to become prostrate; to drop; as, a child totters and falls; a tree falls; a worshiper falls on his knees..
Prostration :: Prostration (n.) The condition of being prostrate; great depression; lowness; dejection; as, a postration of spirits..
Fallen :: Fallen (a.) Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead.
Fling :: Fling (v. t.) To throw; to hurl; to throw off or down; to prostrate; hence, to baffle; to defeat; as, to fling a party in litigation..
Offset :: Offset (n.) A short prostrate shoot, which takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc. See Illust. of Houseleek..
Prostrate :: Prostrate (a.) Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate..
Decumbent :: Decumbent (a.) Lying down; prostrate; recumbent.
Flating :: Flating (a.) With the flat side, as of a sword; flatlong; in a prostrate position..
Throw :: Throw (v. t.) To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist..
Fall :: Fall (v. t.) To become prostrate and dead; to die; especially, to die by violence, as in battle..
Fell :: Fell (v. i.) To cause to fall; to prostrate; to bring down or to the ground; to cut down.
Prostrate :: 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..
Grabble :: Grabble (v. i.) To lie prostrate on the belly; to sprawl on the ground; to grovel.
Prostrate :: Prostrate (a.) Lying in a humble, lowly, or suppliant posture..
Lay :: Lay (v. t.) To cause to lie down, to be prostrate, or to lie against something; to put or set down; to deposit; as, to lay a book on the table; to lay a body in the grave; a shower lays the dust..
Prone :: Prone (a.) Prostrate; flat; esp., lying with the face down; -- opposed to supine..
Prostrated :: Prostrated (imp. & p. p.) of Prostrat.
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