What is "prostrate" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does prostrate mean in English? Meaning of prostrate definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "prostrate" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "prostrate": get into a prostrate position, as in submission

Verb

  • Meaning: get into a prostrate position, as in submission
  • Synonyms: bow down prostrate
  • Hypernyms: lie lie down
  • Meaning of "prostrate": stretched out and lying at full length along the ground

    Adjective

  • Meaning: stretched out and lying at full length along the ground
  • Example: found himself lying flat on the floor
  • Synonyms: flat prostrate
  • Similar: unerect
  • Meaning of "prostrate": render helpless or defenseless

    Verb

  • Meaning: render helpless or defenseless
  • Example: They prostrated the enemy
  • Synonyms: prostrate
  • Hypernyms: alter change modify
  • Meaning of "prostrate": lying face downward

    Adjective

  • Meaning: lying face downward
  • Synonyms: prone prostrate
  • Similar: unerect
  • Meaning of "prostrate": throw down flat, as on the ground

    Verb

  • Meaning: throw down flat, as on the ground
  • Example: She prostrated herself with frustration
  • Synonyms: prostrate
  • Hypernyms: throw
  • Adjective: Lying flat, facedown. Milton Prostrate fall / Before him reverent, and there confess / Humbly our faults. 1945, Sir Winston Churchill, VE Day speech from House of Commons: Finally almost the whole world was combined against the evil-doers, who are now prostrate before us.Milton Prostrate fall / Before him reverent, and there confess / Humbly our faults.1945, Sir Winston Churchill, VE Day speech from House of Commons: Finally almost the whole world was combined against the evil-doers, who are now prostrate before us.Emotionally devastated. I told him you was prostrate with grief. — Mammy to Scarlett, Gone With the Wind.Physically incapacitated from environmental exposure or debilitating disease. He was prostrate from the extreme heat.(botany) Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
  • Synonyms:

    reclining, abject, prone, recumbent, supine, procumbent, bowed low, beaten, overwhelmed, reduced, paralyzed, open, overcome, defenseless, impotent, powerless, weak, overpowered, disarmed, wearied, drained, depressed, incapacitated, dejected, spent, exhausted, paralyzed, drowned, crippled, tuckered, fallen, overcome, inconsolable, obedient, pooped, submissive, subservient, worn out, frazzled, immobilized, fagged, disarmed, knocked over, kneel, kowtow, obey, grovel, bow, surrender, cringe, abase, give in, bow down, cast before, fall at feet, debilitate, incapacitate, impair, sap, frazzle, paralyze, immobilize, tire, wreck, ruin, cripple, overpower, overthrow, destroy, overcome, exhaust, reduce, mow, disarm, weary, drown, fatigue, overturn, drain, level, floor, disable, defeat, fell, whelm, overtire, bring low, knock over, tucker out,

    Antonyms:

    erect, vertical, self-sufficient, successful, hale, healthy, straight, upright, happy, strong, erect, vertical, self-sufficient, successful, hale, healthy, straight, upright, happy, strong, lively, cheerful, encouraged, erect, vertical, self-sufficient, successful, hale, healthy, happy, saved, straight, upright, strong, erect, straighten, aid, assist, assuage, soothe, fight, stand, help, please, aid, assist, energize, invigorate, mobilize, increase, activate, refresh, create, construct, grow, enable, surrender, give in, improve, erect, straighten, assuage, soothe, help, strengthen, allow, build, repair, encourage, yield, raise, stand, please,

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