prostrate
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See also prostate
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[edit] English
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[edit] Adjective
prostrate (not comparable)
- Lying flat, facedown.
- 1945, Sir Winston Churchill, VE Day speech from House of Commons:
- Finally almost the whole world was combined against the evil-doers, who are now prostrate before us.
- 1945, Sir Winston Churchill, VE Day speech from House of Commons:
- Emotionally devastated.
- I told him you was prostrate with grief. — Mammy to Scarlett, Gone With the Wind.
- Physically incapacitated from environmental exposure or debilitating disease.
- He was prostrate from the extreme heat.
[edit] Antonyms
- (lying flat, facedown): supine
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[edit] Verb
prostrate (third-person singular simple present prostrates, present participle prostrating, simple past and past participle prostrated)
- (Often reflexive) To lie flat or facedown; to throw oneself down in submission (also figuratively).
- To cause to lie down, to flatten; (figuratively) to overcome or overpower.
- 1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter XIV, page 175:
- How many of these mighty pines were to be prostrated under that approaching tempest!
- 1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter XIV, page 175:
[edit] Usage notes
- Prostrate and prostate are often confused, in spelling if not in meaning.
[edit] Translations
to lie flat or facedown, prone
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to be emotionally devastated
to become physically incapacitated
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[edit] Italian
[edit] Verb
prostrate
- second-person plural present indicative of prostrare
- second-person plural imperative of prostrare
- Feminine plural of prostrato
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[edit] Participle
prōstrāte
- vocative masculine singular of prōstrātus
