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Dictionary Results for prostrate:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

prostrate
    adj 1: stretched out and lying at full length along the ground;
           "found himself lying flat on the floor" [syn: flat,
           prostrate]
    2: lying face downward [syn: prone, prostrate]
    v 1: get into a prostrate position, as in submission [syn:
         prostrate, bow down]
    2: render helpless or defenseless; "They prostrated the enemy"
    3: throw down flat, as on the ground; "She prostrated herself
       with frustration"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Prostrate \Pros"trate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prostrated; p. pr.
   & vb. n. Prostrating.]
   1. To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to
      prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants.
      --Evelyn.
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   2. to overthrow; to demolish; to destroy; to deprive of
      efficiency; to ruin; as, to prostrate a village; to
      prostrate a government; to prostrate law or justice.
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   3. To throw down, or cause to fall in humility or adoration;
      to cause to bow in humble reverence; used reflexively; as,
      he prostrated himself. --Milman.
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   4. To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to
      reduce; as, a person prostrated by fever.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Prostrate \Pros"trate\, a. [L. prostratus, p. p. of prosternere
   to prostrate; pro before, forward + sternere to spread out,
   throw down. See Stratum.]
   1. Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground
      or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate.
      --Elyot.
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            Groveling and prostrate on yon lake of fire.
                                                  --Milton.
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   2. Lying at mercy, as a supplicant. --Dryden.
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   3. Lying in a humble, lowly, or suppliant posture.
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            Prostrate fall
            Before him reverent, and there confess
            Humbly our faults.                    --Milton.
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   4. (Bot.) Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
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