Definition of Prostrate

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Prostrate

Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate.

Lying at mercy, as a supplicant.

Lying in a humble, lowly, or suppliant posture.

Trailing on the ground; procumbent.

To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants.

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.

To throw down, or cause to fall in humility or adoration; to cause to bow in humble reverence; used reflexively; as, he prostrated himself.

To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to reduce; as, a person prostrated by fever.

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Prostrate Quotations

All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate.
Charles Inglis

It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.
Zachary Taylor

Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.
Thomas Love Peacock

When you read any great mystery, recorded in holy Writ, you are to prostrate your Reason to Divine Revelation.
Thomas Ken

Prostrate Translations

prostrate in German is niederwerfen
prostrate in Spanish is postrado

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