prostrate in English

adjective

1

lying stretched out on the ground with one's face downward.

I don't actually suffer from it in real life, but in dreams I often find myself lying prostrate and petrified on top of a building, afraid to stand up.

synonyms: prone, lying flat, lying down, stretched out, spread-eagled, sprawling, horizontal, recumbent, procumbent

verb

1

lay oneself flat on the ground face downward, especially in reverence or submission.

she prostrated herself on the bare floor of the church

2

(of distress, exhaustion, or illness) reduce (someone) to extreme physical weakness.

she was prostrated by a migraine that she could scarcely get up the stairs

synonyms: overwhelm, overcome, overpower, bring to one's knees, devastate, debilitate, weaken, enfeeble, enervate, lay low, wear out, exhaust, tire out, drain, sap, wash out, take it out of, frazzle, do in, poop

adjective

prone, lying flat, lying down, stretched out, spread-eagled, sprawling, horizontal, recumbent, procumbent
overwhelmed, overcome, overpowered, brought to one's knees, stunned, dazed, speechless, helpless
worn out, exhausted, fatigued, tired out, sapped, dog-tired, spent, drained, debilitated, enervated, laid low, war-weary, dead, dead beat, dead on one's feet, ready to drop, bushed, frazzled, worn to a frazzle, whacked, pooped
flat
prone

verb

overwhelm, bow down
overwhelm, overcome, overpower, bring to one's knees, devastate, debilitate, weaken, enfeeble, enervate, lay low, wear out, exhaust, tire out, drain, sap, wash out, take it out of, frazzle, do in, poop
bow down

Use "prostrate" in a sentence

1. Polygonum aviculare L.: Prostrate knotweed absolute CoE 515 / Prostrate knotweed extract CoE 515 / Prostrate knotweed tincture CoE 515

2. I was prostrate with grief.

3. They fell prostrate in worship.

4. They fell prostrate before the king.

5. She was prostrate on the floor.

6. Condescendent prostrate Athetosic outdresses globously unmoldable

7. He stumbled over Luke's prostrate body.

8. Annes has fallen prostrate before the field.

9. The illness left her prostrate for several weeks.

10. Then they prostrate themselves, yes, they worship it.

11. She was prostrate with grief after her son's death.

12. To the Tathagata, Bestowed with Glory, I prostrate

13. She was prostrate with grief after his death.

14. They found him lying prostrate on the floor.

15. Outside they prostrate themselves on wooden prayer beds.

16. Shall we prostrate ourselves and deprecate his wrath?

17. When he left she'd been prostrate upon her bed.

18. She was found prostrate on the floor of the cell.

19. A woman, prostrate with grief, lay wailing on the ground.

20. Gabriel saw a man praying before an idol, lying prostrate.

21. Prostrate kelps lie near and along the sea floor (e.g., Laminaria).

22. His mother's prostrate body the fiery Columbanus in holy zeal bestrode.

23. Over our prostrate forms the bullets are hissing and shells shrieking.

24. To the dried-out wood of a tree shall I prostrate myself?’

25. The prisoners were forced to lie prostrate in front of their captors.

26. Percy was lying prostrate, his arms outstretched and his eyes closed.

27. The country, prostrate after years of war, began slowly to recover.

28. Was it Carl Lewis falling prostrate after his gold medal long jump?

29. Thalli are linear and prostrate, with smooth margins and a distinct dorsal sulcus.

30. Their goal is to kiss an icon of Mary and prostrate themselves before it.

31. You subconsciously Besplatter your pages with inert verbs that squat or prostrate themselves

32. The angels prostrate, not before the human body, but before the human soul.

33. You subconsciously Besplatter your pages with inert verbs that squat or prostrate themselves

34. Ahmed and Francis were bored and Gus said his prostrate was flaring up.

35. The young mother was prostrate with grief at her baby's death from pneumonia.

36. Pulling a torch from this pocket he played the beam across her prostrate form.

37. Their crews are prostrate in the shade, trying to escape the excruciating, oven heat.

38. Synonyms for Accumbent include decumbent, prostrate, prone, flat, horizontal, reclining, recumbent, level, parallel and plane

39. 26 The young mother was prostrate with grief at her baby's death from pneumonia.

40. Banksias range in size from prostrate woody shrubs to trees up to 30 metres tall

41. DESCRIPTION: Fourleaf Allseed is a small, erect, spreading, or prostrate annual herb to 15 cm tall1

42. Prostrate straighten back, both ends raise, sit-up can be used for core strength training methods.

43. Small dandelion looked to this land, beach several reed hung head, listlessly prostrate on the ground.

44. The referee made a sweeping gesture with his arm over the prostrate figure of the white fighter.

45. Symptoms of B deficiency in E. globulus were rolled and malformed leaves, stem dieback, and a prostrate form.

46. Birdweed; Doorweed; Knotgrass; Lowgrass; Pigweed; Prostrate Knotweed; Wiregrass; Phonetic Spelling po-LI-go-num a-vik-yoo-LAIR-ee Description

47. For this chance fever which had just laid me prostrate was not induced by Honegger alone but by you too.

48. Caltrop is a prostrate annual that produces very spiny fruits that can cause major problems to plant, animals and people

49. Paths were lost which the water had obliterated and silent highways were marked by great trees lying prostrate across the track.

50. Both species are evergreen, low shrubs growing to 10–70 cm tall, prostrate where colonizing new mud, but once rooted, growing bushy.