- (v.t.) To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to reduce; as, a person prostrated by fever.
- (a.) Lying at length or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate.
- (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 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 lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants.
- (a.) Lying at mercy, as a supplicant.
- (a.) Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
- (a.) Lying in a humble, lowly or suppliant posture.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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