Prostrate
French Meaning
prostré
prosterné
accablé
à plat ventre
prolongé
accabler
battre
mettre par terre
English Meaning
- To put or throw flat with the face down, as in submission or adoration: "He did not simply sit and meditate, he also knelt down, sometimes even prostrated himself” ( Iris Murdoch).
- To cause to lie flat: The wind prostrated the young trees.
- To reduce to extreme weakness or incapacitation; overcome: an illness that prostrated an entire family; a nation that was prostrated by years of civil war.
- Lying face down, as in submission or adoration.
- Lying flat or at full length.
- Reduced to extreme weakness or incapacitation; overcome.
- Botany Growing flat along the ground.