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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Prostrate :: Prostrate (a.) Lying at mercy, as a supplicant..
Prone :: Prone (a.) Prostrate; flat; esp., lying with the face down; -- opposed to supine..
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..
Bow :: Bow (v. t.) To cause to bend down; to prostrate; to depress,;/ to crush; to subdue..
Trample :: Trample (v. t.) To tread under foot; to tread down; to prostrate by treading; as, to trample grass or flowers..
Flating :: Flating (a.) With the flat side, as of a sword; flatlong; in a prostrate position..
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..
Flatten :: Flatten (a.) To throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate; hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit..
Flat :: Flat (superl.) Lying at full length, or spread out, upon the ground; level with the ground or earth; prostrate; as, to lie flat on the ground; hence, fallen; laid low; ruined; destroyed..
Procumbent :: Procumbent (a.) Lying on the ground, but without putting forth roots; trailing; prostrate; as, a procumbent stem..
Decumbent :: Decumbent (a.) Lying down; prostrate; recumbent.
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..
Offset :: Offset (n.) A short prostrate shoot, which takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc. See Illust. of Houseleek..
Prostrated :: Prostrated (imp. & p. p.) of Prostrat.
Prostrate :: Prostrate (a.) Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate..
Repent :: Repent (a.) Prostrate and rooting; -- said of stems.
Stoop :: Stoop (v. t.) To cause to submit; to prostrate.
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..
Prostration :: Prostration (n.) The condition of being prostrate; great depression; lowness; dejection; as, a postration of spirits..
Sarment :: Sarment (n.) A prostrate filiform stem or runner, as of the strawberry. See Runner..
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