Definition of prostrate

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Prostrate (v. t.) To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants..

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Prone :: Prone (a.) Prostrate; flat; esp., lying with the face down; -- opposed to supine..
Procumbent :: Procumbent (a.) Lying on the ground, but without putting forth roots; trailing; prostrate; as, a procumbent stem..
Offset :: Offset (n.) A short prostrate shoot, which takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc. See Illust. of Houseleek..
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..
Trample :: Trample (v. t.) To tread under foot; to tread down; to prostrate by treading; as, to trample grass or flowers..
Vesicoprostatic :: Vesicoprostatic (a.) Of a pertaining to the bladder and the prostrate gland.
Throw :: Throw (v. t.) To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist..
Prostrate :: Prostrate (a.) Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
Bow :: Bow (v. t.) To cause to bend down; to prostrate; to depress,;/ to crush; to subdue..
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..
Fall :: Fall (v. t.) To become prostrate and dead; to die; especially, to die by violence, as in battle..
Prostrated :: Prostrated (imp. & p. p.) of Prostrat.
Fell :: Fell (v. i.) To cause to fall; to prostrate; to bring down or to the ground; to cut down.
Windfall :: Windfall (n.) Anything blown down or off by the wind, as fruit from a tree, or the tree itself, or a portion of a forest prostrated by a violent wind, etc..
Repent :: Repent (a.) Prostrate and rooting; -- said of stems.
Sarment :: Sarment (n.) A prostrate filiform stem or runner, as of the strawberry. See Runner..
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..
Deprostrate :: Deprostrate (a.) Fully prostrate; humble; low; rude.
Prostration :: Prostration (n.) The condition of being prostrate; great depression; lowness; dejection; as, a postration of spirits..
Flatten :: Flatten (a.) To throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate; hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit..
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