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