Definition of prostrate

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Prostrate (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..

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Prostrate :: Prostrate (a.) Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate..
Prostrate :: 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..
Decumbent :: Decumbent (a.) Lying down; prostrate; recumbent.
Fall :: Fall (v. t.) To cease to be erect; to take suddenly a recumbent posture; to become prostrate; to drop; as, a child totters and falls; a tree falls; a worshiper falls on his knees..
Flating :: Flating (a.) With the flat side, as of a sword; flatlong; in a prostrate position..
Stoop :: Stoop (v. t.) To cause to submit; to prostrate.
Offset :: Offset (n.) A short prostrate shoot, which takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc. See Illust. of Houseleek..
Flat :: Flat (superl.) Lying at full length, or spread out, upon the ground; level with the ground or earth; prostrate; as, to lie flat on the ground; hence, fallen; laid low; ruined; destroyed..
Fling :: Fling (v. t.) To throw; to hurl; to throw off or down; to prostrate; hence, to baffle; to defeat; as, to fling a party in litigation..
Prostrate :: Prostrate (a.) Lying at mercy, as a supplicant..
Prostrate :: Prostrate (v. t.) To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to reduce; as, a person prostrated by fever..
Throw :: Throw (v. t.) To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist..
Lay :: Lay (v. t.) To cause to lie down, to be prostrate, or to lie against something; to put or set down; to deposit; as, to lay a book on the table; to lay a body in the grave; a shower lays the dust..
Fallen :: Fallen (a.) Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead.
Grovel :: Grovel (adv.) To creep on the earth, or with the face to the ground; to lie prone, or move uneasily with the body prostrate on the earth; to lie fiat on one's belly, expressive of abjectness; to crawl..
Prostrate :: Prostrate (a.) Lying in a humble, lowly, or suppliant posture..
Prostration :: Prostration (n.) The condition of being prostrate; great depression; lowness; dejection; as, a postration of spirits..
Prostrated :: Prostrated (imp. & p. p.) of Prostrat.
Procumbent :: Procumbent (a.) Lying on the ground, but without putting forth roots; trailing; prostrate; as, a procumbent stem..
Windfall :: Windfall (n.) Anything blown down or off by the wind, as fruit from a tree, or the tree itself, or a portion of a forest prostrated by a violent wind, etc..
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