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Prostration

The act of prostrating, throwing down, or laying fiat; as, the prostration of the body.

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Algidity 76% connected

Chilliness; coldness

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Breakdown 76% connected

The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall.

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Shock 76% connected

A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stoo…

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Compliance 76% connected

The act of complying; a yielding; as to a desire, demand, or proposal; concession; submission.

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Illness 76% connected

The condition of being ill, evil, or bad; badness; unfavorableness.

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Malady 76% connected

Any disease of the human body; a distemper, disorder, or indisposition, proceeding from impaired, defective, or morbid organic functions; especially,…

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Motility 76% connected

Capability of motion; contractility.

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Motion 76% connected

The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or…

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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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Movement 76% connected

The act of moving; change of place or posture; transference, by any means, from one situation to another; natural or appropriate motion; progress; ad…

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Sickness 76% connected

The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; sisease or malady.

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Submission 76% connected

The act of submitting; the act of yielding to power or authority; surrender of the person and power to the control or government of another; obedienc…

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Unwellness 76% connected

Quality or state of being unwell.

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Prostrate 74% connected

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

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Prostrate 74% connected

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

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Collapse 92% connected

To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall i…

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