Prostrate

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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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