PROSTRATE
\pɹˈɒstɹe͡ɪt], \pɹˈɒstɹeɪt], \p_ɹ_ˈɒ_s_t_ɹ_eɪ_t]\
Definitions of PROSTRATE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
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stretched out and lying at full length along the ground; "found himself lying flat on the floor"
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render helpless or defenseless; "They prostrated the enemy"
By Princeton University
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stretched out and lying at full length along the ground; "found himself lying flat on the floor"
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render helpless or defenseless; "They prostrated the enemy"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate.
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Lying at mercy, as a supplicant.
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Lying in a humble, lowly, or suppliant posture.
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Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
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To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants.
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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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To throw down, or cause to fall in humility or adoration; to cause to bow in humble reverence; used reflexively; as, he prostrated himself.
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To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to reduce; as, a person prostrated by fever.
By Oddity Software
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Thrown forwards on the ground: lying at length: lying at mercy: bent in adoration.
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To throw forwards on the ground: to lay flat: to overthrow: to sink totally: to bow in humble reverence.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To lay or throw down flat; overthrow.
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To reduce to extreme weakness.
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Lying flat; overthrown or overcome; prostrated.
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Prostration.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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