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prostrate

• (a.) Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface
• stretched out
• as, to sleep prostrate.
• (a.) Lying at mercy, as a supplicant.
• (a.) Lying in a humble, lowly, or suppliant posture.
• (a.) Trailing on the ground
• procumbent.
• (v. t.) To lay fiat
• to throw down
• to level
• to fell
• as, to prostrate the body
• to prostrate trees or plants.
• (v. t.) 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.
• (v. t.) To throw down, or cause to fall in humility or adoration
• to cause to bow in humble reverence
• used reflexively
• as, he prostrated himself.
• (v. t.) To cause to sink totally
• to deprive of strength
• to reduce
• as, a person prostrated by fever.

 

prostrated

• (imp. &
• p. p.) of Prostrate

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