prostrate
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
prostrate (not comparable)
- Lying flat, face-down.
- Synonyms: prone
- Antonyms: supine
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 9”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:
- 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.
- (figuratively) Emotionally devastated.
- Physically incapacitated from environmental exposure or debilitating disease.
- He was prostrate from the extreme heat.
- (botany) Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
- Russian: распростёртый
- Spanish: postrado, acostado boca abajo
prostrate (prostrates, present participle prostrating; past and past participle prostrated)
(often, reflexive) To lie flat or face-down. - (also, figurative) To throw oneself down in submission.
- To cause to lie down, to flatten.
- (figuratively) To overcome or overpower.
- 1936, Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind
- Why this very minute she's prostrated with grief.
- 1936, Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind
- French: prosterner
- Portuguese: prostrar
- Russian: лежа́ть ничко́м
- Portuguese: prostrar-se
- Russian: па́дать ниц
- Portuguese: prostrar
- Russian: поверга́ть ниц
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