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Prostrate   /prˈɑstreɪt/   Listen
Prostrate

adjective
1.
Stretched out and lying at full length along the ground.  Synonym: flat.
2.
Lying face downward.  Synonym: prone.
verb
(past & past part. prostrated; pres. part. prostrating)
1.
Get into a prostrate position, as in submission.  Synonym: bow down.
2.
Render helpless or defenseless.
3.
Throw down flat, as on the ground.



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"Prostrate" Quotes from Famous Books



... other, he slammed his burden back over his shoulder with such force that he went crashing through, carrying sash and all, and fell, cut and bruised, but safe, upon Fireman Pearl, who grovelled upon the door, prostrate and panting. ...
— Children of the Tenements • Jacob A. Riis
... additional candles and more vinegar introduced, and the drunken fellows were standing as straight as they could, each with a candle in his hand, round the still prostrate M'Garry. ...
— Handy Andy, Volume One - A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes • Samuel Lover
... which they had so often opposed; and the bishops met the presbyters in a convocation at the Savoy. A conference was held between the high church, resuming the seat of power, and the low church, now prostrate; that is, between the old clergy who had recently been mercilessly ejected by the new, who in their turn were awaiting their fate. The conference was closed with arguments by the weaker, and votes by the stronger. Many curious anecdotes of this conference have come down to us. ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli
... presence refreshes him. One who pressed forward incessantly and never rested from his labors, who grew fast and made infinite demands on life, would always find himself in a new country or wilderness, and surrounded by the raw material of life. He would be climbing over the prostrate stems of ...
— Excursions • Henry D. Thoreau
... out a song praising Tristan as the heroic slayer of Isolda's betrothed, Morold. Brangaena precipitately retreats and closes the curtains; Isolda and she face one another in the tent, the second nearly prostrate with dismay, the first boiling with wrath and shame at the insult hurled at her. She now tells Brangaena the whole of the preceding history—her nursing of Tristan and his monstrous treatment of her—and finishes with another curse. Brangaena ...
— Richard Wagner - Composer of Operas • John F. Runciman


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