transitive verb. To put or throw flat with the face down, as in submission or adoration.

transitive verb. To cause to lie flat.

transitive verb. To reduce to extreme weakness or incapacitation; overcome.

adjective. Lying face down, as in submission or adoration.

adjective. Lying flat or at full length.

adjective. Reduced to extreme weakness or incapacitation; overcome.

adjective. Growing flat along the ground.

To lay flat; throw down: as, to prostrate the body.

To throw down; overthrow; demolish; ruin: as, to prostrate a government; to prostrate the honor of a nation.

To throw (one's self) down, in humility or adoration; bow with the face to the ground: used reflexively.

To present submissively; submit in reverence.

In medicine, to make to sink totally; reduce extremely; cause to succumb: as, to prostrate a person's strength.

Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface.

Lying at mercy, as a suppliant or one who is overcome in fight: as, a prostrate foe.

Lying or bowed low in the posture of humility or adoration.

In botany, lying flat and spreading on the ground without taking root; procumbent.

In zoology, closely appressed to the surface; lying flat: as, prostrate hairs.

adjective. Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out.

adjective. Lying at mercy, as a supplicant.

adjective. Lying in a humble, lowly, or suppliant posture.

adjective. Trailing on the ground; procumbent.

transitive verb. To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell

transitive verb. to overthrow; to demolish; to destroy; to deprive of efficiency; to ruin

transitive verb. To throw down, or cause to fall in humility or adoration; to cause to bow in humble reverence; used reflexively.

transitive verb. To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to reduce.

adjective. Lying flat, facedown.

adjective. Emotionally devastated.

adjective. Physically incapacitated from environmental exposure or debilitating disease.

verb. To lie flat or facedown.

verb. To throw oneself down in submission (also figuratively).

verb. To cause to lie down, to flatten; (figuratively) to overcome or overpower.

verb. get into a prostrate position, as in submission

verb. throw down flat, as on the ground

adjective. lying face downward

verb. render helpless or defenseless

adjective. stretched out and lying at full length along the ground

"By the way, avoid some embarrassment by not confusing prostate, which can be inflamed enough to knock you to the floor, with the word prostrate, which means you are lying flat on the floor."

supine  

depressed  helpless  kowtow  

unerect  

prostration  

alter  change  lie  lie down  modify  

abject  breathless  daze  deaf  defenseless  

abject  accumbent  adorant  adoring  afflict  

prostrated  prostrates  prostrating