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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Prostrate :: Prostrate (a.) Lying at mercy, as a supplicant..
Prostrate :: Prostrate (a.) Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
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..
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..
Repent :: Repent (a.) Prostrate and rooting; -- said of stems.
Prostrate :: Prostrate (v. t.) To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to reduce; as, a person prostrated by fever..
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..
Procumbent :: Procumbent (a.) Lying on the ground, but without putting forth roots; trailing; prostrate; as, a procumbent stem..
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..
Flating :: Flating (a.) With the flat side, as of a sword; flatlong; in a prostrate position..
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..
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..
Prostration :: Prostration (n.) The condition of being prostrate; great depression; lowness; dejection; as, a postration of spirits..
Grabble :: Grabble (v. i.) To lie prostrate on the belly; to sprawl on the ground; to grovel.
Stoop :: Stoop (v. t.) To cause to submit; to prostrate.
Flatten :: Flatten (a.) To throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate; hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit..
Offset :: Offset (n.) A short prostrate shoot, which takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc. See Illust. of Houseleek..
Trample :: Trample (v. t.) To tread under foot; to tread down; to prostrate by treading; as, to trample grass or flowers..
Bow :: Bow (v. t.) To cause to bend down; to prostrate; to depress,;/ to crush; to subdue..
Sarment :: Sarment (n.) A prostrate filiform stem or runner, as of the strawberry. See Runner..
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