to prostrate

Examples

• All

• I would endeavor to prostrate the National Government, raise a ferment, and then 'ride in the whirlwind and direct the storm.'

  Academic text (1993)

• And more's the horror: The citizens of Lystra had prostrated themselves toward us!

  Fiction book (2000)

• Since most of the people in the nursing home were old, seeing Leo prostrate and gasping for breath made them think of their own mortality.

  Fiction book (1994)

• According to the Natal Mercury, he "has been thoroughly prostrated by the grief."

  Academic text (2005)

• At Spencer Abbey he'd seen parents almost prostrate in despair at the thought of losing a child to the cloistered life.

  Fiction book (1993)

• We stopped, the men got out, spread blankets across the sand, and once again prostrated themselves in homage to Allah.

  Fiction book (2002)

• The previous centuries had only been a period of waiting and preparing for colonization, and as Africans simply prostrated themselves before the colonial power, the slate of the past was wiped clean.

  Academic text (1992)

• For hours, through that long, dreadful, heat-prostrated afternoon, I walked him up and down the floor, forcing the blood to wash through his veins, clear his perceptions, and resharpen his wits.

  Fiction book (1992)

• The heat was so overwhelming that it prostrated the hikers, leaving them unable to continue their journey.

• Emotional distress can prostrate an individual, making it difficult for them to perform daily tasks.

Synonyms

P

to paralyze

vsto prostrate

• US

266 5.3

Stop a person or system from moving and acting

reduces to helpless defenseless weakness rather than complete inability to act

D

to debilitate

vsto prostrate

20 7.7

To make a person, animal, or thing weak and less able to work

focuses on causing helpless or defenseless weakness not only physical decline

B

to bring to its knees

vsto prostrate

• Informal

19 6.5

To make a person, company or system stop working

creates helpless or defenseless weakness not only defeat or overwhelm

C

to castrate

vsto prostrate

• Informal

7 8.8

To take away the power of something so it cannot work well

causes helpless or defenseless weakness rather than removing a specific power source

E

to enfeeble

vsto prostrate

2 8.4

To make a person or thing very weak

reduce someone to helpless or defenseless weakness

Antonyms

E

to empower

157 4.2

Give someone the power and confidence to do something

How Weak

to prostrate

1 8.2

to incapacitate

46 7.5

to weaken

305 2.8

to impair

61 5.1

Surface Forms

Etymology