prostrate
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- adjective
- /ˈprɒstreɪt/
:
postrado
- During the ceremony, the believers lay prostrate on the ground in prayer.
- lie prostrate
- prostrate at his feet
- prostrate body
Examples
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No one moved or spoke; all attention was focused on the prostrate form of the sobbing woman.
Fiction book (1998) -
Why, even now her dearest Denny could be prostrate on the floor, breathing his last.
Fiction book (1991) -
Prostrate before my lord and his daughter!
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I did not run away, did not resist, but threw myself prostrate into the cold water.
Fiction book (2002) -
Through a break in the trees, we catch an occasional glimpse of a prostrate form on the ground.
Fiction book (2001) -
The older man looked at the prostrate Parks and blurted, "My God, Art!"
Fiction book (2001) -
The calf stood to one side, looking back and forth between them and its prostrate mother.
Fiction book (1990) -
There was no screeching of brakes as a bus swerved to avoid his prostrate body.
Fiction book (1990) -
The women stand, kneel, or lie prostrate before the pit, which overflows with vessels.
Fiction book (2002) -
Selina's cat, Hecate, strolls across his prostrate form, purring and stretching...
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
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3.9
Lying flat with the front of your body on the ground
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Prostrate comes from the Latin parts pro- 'forward' and sternere 'to spread out', so it once meant 'spread out face down' and that's why prostrate describes someone lying flat from tiredness, respect, or worship.