prostrate
IPA: prˈɑstreɪt
verb
- (often reflexive) To lie flat or face-down.
- (also figurative) To throw oneself down in submission.
- To cause to lie down, to flatten.
- (figuratively) To overcome or overpower.
adjective
- Lying flat, face-down.
- (figuratively) Emotionally devastated.
- Physically incapacitated from environmental exposure or debilitating disease.
- (botany) Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
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Examples of "prostrate" in Sentences
- This is a prostrate annual herb.
- Prostrate shrub is a similar term.
- The two stand on a prostrate enemy.
- Plants are few and mostly prostrate.
- The stems are prostrate or decumbent.
- It is a deciduous small prostrate shrub.
- A prostrate weeping form is in cultivation.
- It makes an attractive prostrate groundcover.
- The prostrate figure is reputed to be the pretender Gaumata.
- In the privacy of the night, they meditate on their Lord, and fall prostrate.