Definition of "prostrate"

prostrate

/ˈpɹɒstɹeɪt/

adjective
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1. Lying flat, face-down.
  Quotations
  Prostrate fall / Before him reverent, and there confess / Humbly our faults.
  1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,
  Finally almost the whole world was combined against the evil-doers, who are now prostrate before us.
  1945, Sir Winston Churchill, VE Day speech from House of Commons
2. (figuratively) Emotionally devastated.
3. Physically incapacitated from environmental exposure or debilitating disease.
4. (botany) Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
verb
third-person singular simple present prostrates, present participle prostrating, simple past and past participle prostrated
1. (often reflexive) To lie flat or face-down.
2. (also figurative) To throw oneself down in submission.
  Quotations
  Those who had the privilege of approaching him, had to prostrate themselves before him in profound humility […]
  1922, Maneckji Nusserwanji Dhalla, Zoroastrian Civilization‎, page 228
3. To cause to lie down, to flatten.
  Quotations
  How many of these mighty pines were to be prostrated under that approaching tempest!
  1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter XIV, page 175
4. (figuratively) To overcome or overpower.
  Quotations
  Why this very minute she's prostrated with grief.
  1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944,

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