1. Adjective
Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate.
2. Adjective
Lying at mercy, as a supplicant.
3. Adjective
Lying in a humble, lowly, or suppliant posture.
4. Adjective
Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
5. Verb
To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants.
6. Verb
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.
7. Verb
To throw down, or cause to fall in humility or adoration; to cause to bow in humble reverence; used reflexively; as, he prostrated himself.
8. Verb
To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to reduce; as, a person prostrated by fever.
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