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| pros·trate [ pró stràyt ] |
verb (past and past participle pros·trat·ed, present participle pros·trat·ing, 3rd person present singular pros·trates) |
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1. pros·trate your·self vr lie face downward: to lie prone or stretched out with the face downward or bow very low, e.g. in worship or submission
  He prostrated himself before the emperor.
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2. transitive verb lay somebody or something on ground: to lay or throw somebody or something flat on the ground
was prostrated by a blow on the head
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3. transitive verb incapacitate somebody: to make somebody physically or emotionally weak or helpless
was prostrated by illness
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1. lying flat on face: lying prone or stretched out with the face downward, e.g. in worship or submission
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2. lying down: stretched out in a horizontal position, often because of illness or injury
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3. drained of energy: drained of physical strength or incapacitated by overexertion or powerful emotion
prostrate with grief
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4. botany growing along ground: describes a plant that grows or trails along the ground
a prostrate shrub
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| [14th century. < Latin prostratus, past participle of prosternere "throw in front of" < sternere "spread out, lay down"] |
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