Definitions for prostrate
ˈprɒs treɪtpros·trate

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. flat, prostrateadjective

   stretched out and lying at full length along the ground

   "found himself lying flat on the floor"

2. prone, prostrateverb

   lying face downward

3. prostrate, bow downverb

   get into a prostrate position, as in submission

4. prostrateverb

   render helpless or defenseless

   "They prostrated the enemy"

5. prostrateverb

   throw down flat, as on the ground

   "She prostrated herself with frustration"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. prostrateverb

   (Often reflexive) To lie flat or facedown; to throw oneself down in submission (also figuratively).

2. prostrateverb

   To cause to lie down, to flatten; (figuratively) to overcome or overpower.

3. prostrateadjective

   Lying flat, facedown.

4. prostrateadjective

   Emotionally devastated.

   I told him you was prostrate with grief. Mammy to Scarlett, Gone With the Wind.

5. prostrateadjective

   Physically incapacitated from environmental exposure or debilitating disease.

   He was prostrate from the extreme heat.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. PROSTRATEadjective

   Etymology: prostratus, Lat.

   1. Lying at length.

   Once I saw with dread oppressed
   Her whom I dread; so that with prostrate lying,
   Her length the earth in love’s chief cloathing dressed. Philip Sidney.

   He heard the western lords would undermine
   His city’s wall, and lay his tow’rs prostrate. Edward Fairfax.

   Before fair Britomart she fell prostrate. Edmund Spenser.

   Groveling and prostrate on yon lake of fire. John Milton.

   2. Lying at mercy.

   Look gracious on thy prostrate thrall. William Shakespeare.

   3. Thrown down in humblest adoration.

   The warning sound was no sooner heard, but the churches were filled, the pavements covered with bodies prostrate, and washed with tears of devout joy. Richard Hooker.

   Let us to the place
   Repairing where he judg’d us, prostrate fall
   Before him reverent; and there confess
   Humbly our faults, and pardon beg. John Milton.

   While prostrate here in humble grief I lie,
   Kind virtuous drops just gath’ring in my eye. Alexander Pope.

2. To Prostrateverb

   Etymology: prostratus, Lat.

   1. To lay flat; to throw down.

   In the streets many they slew, and fired divers places, prostrating two parishes almost entirely. John Hayward.

   A storm that all things doth prostrate,
   Finding a tree alone all comfortless,
   Beats on it strongly, it to ruinate. Edmund Spenser.

   Stake and bind up your weakest plants against the winds, before they come too fiercely, and in a moment prostrate a whole year’s labour. John Evelyn, Kalendar.

   The drops falling thicker, faster, and with greater force, beating down the fruit from the trees, prostrating and laying corn growing in the fields. John Woodward, Nat. Hist.

   2. [ Se prosterner, Fr.]To throw down in adoration.

   Some have prostrated themselves an hundred times in the day, and as often in the night. Brian Duppa.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Prostrateadjective

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

2. Prostrateadjective

   lying at mercy, as a supplicant

3. Prostrateadjective

   lying in a humble, lowly, or suppliant posture

4. Prostrateadjective

   trailing on the ground; procumbent

5. Prostrateverb

   to lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants

6. Prostrateverb

   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. Prostrateverb

   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. Prostrateverb

   to cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to reduce; as, a person prostrated by fever

9. Etymology: [L. prostratus, p. p. of prosternere to prostrate; pro before, forward + sternere to spread out, throw down. See Stratum.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Prostrate

   pros′trāt, adj. thrown forwards on the ground: lying at length: lying at mercy: bent in adoration.—v.t. to throw forwards on the ground: to lay flat: to overthrow: to sink totally: to bow in humble reverence.—n. Prostrā′tion, act of throwing down or laying flat: act of falling down in adoration: dejection: complete loss of strength. [L. pro, forwards, sternĕre, stratum, to strew.]

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of prostrate in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of prostrate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of prostrate in a Sentence

1. Bharavi:

   As drops of bitter medicine, though minute, may have a salutary force, so words, though few and painful, uttered seasonably, may rouse the prostrate energies of those who meet misfortune with despondency.

2. Donald McEachin:

   So the question becomes, 'Why is this young man prostrate on a Charlottesville sidewalk beaten like a dog?'.

3. John Calvin:

   It is said that this idol provoked to jealousy, because the Jews by erecting this idol trod under foot their God, or at least endeavored to prostrate his glory.”

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=prostrate
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Prostrate
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=prostrate
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prostrate
5. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=prostrate