Prostrate

Definition: Prostrate

Prostrate

Adjective

1. Stretched out and lying at full length along the ground; "found himself lying flat on the floor".

2. Lying face downward.

Verb

1. Get into a prostrate position, as in submission.

2. Render helpless or defenseless; "They prostrated the enemy".

3. Throw down flat, as on the ground; "She prostrated herself with frustration".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "prostrate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Prostrate

Dejection

Depress; discourage, dishearten; dispirit; damp, dull, deject, lower, sink, dash, knock down, unman, prostrate, break one's heart; frown upon; cast a gloom, cast a shade on; sadden; damp one's hopes, dash one's hopes, wither one's hopes; weigh on the mind, lie heavy on the mind, prey on the mind, weigh on the spirits, lie heavy on the spirits, prey on the spirits; damp the spirits, depress the spirits.

Depression

Adjective: depressed; Verb: at a low ebb; prostrate; (horizontal); detrusive.

Destruction

Deal destruction, desolate, devastate, lay waste, ravage gut; disorganize; dismantle; (render useless); devour, swallow up, sap, mine, blast, bomb, blow to smithereens, drop the big one, confound; exterminate, extinguish, quench, annihilate; snuff out, put out, stamp out, trample out; lay in the dust, trample in the dust; prostrate; tread under foot; crush under foot, trample under foot; lay the ax to the root of; make short work of, make clean sweep of, make mincemeat of; cut up root and branch, chop into pieces, cut into ribbons; fling to the winds, scatter to the winds; throw overboard; strike at the root of, sap the foundations of, spring a mine, blow up, ravage with fire and sword; cast to the dogs; eradicate.

Disease

Weakly, weakened; (weak); decrepit; decayed; (deteriorated); incurable; (hopeless); in declining health; cranky; in a bad way, in danger, prostrate; moribund; (death).

Fatigue

Fatigue, tire, weary, irk, flag, jade, harass, exhaust, knock up, wear out, prostrate.

Adjective: fatigued, tired; Verb: weary; drowsy; drooping; Verb: haggard; toilworn, wayworn:, footsore, surbated, weather-beaten; faint; done up, used up, knocked up; bushed ; exhausted, prostrate, spent; overtired, overspent, overfatigued; unrefreshed, unrestored.

Horizontality

Render horizontal; Adjective: lay down, lay out; level, flatten; prostrate, knock down, floor, fell.

Recumbent, decumbent, procumbent, accumbent; lying; Verb: prone, supine, couchant, jacent, prostrate, recubant.

Impotence

Render powerless; Adjective: deprive of power; disable, disenable; disarm, incapacitate, disqualify, unfit, invalidate, deaden, cramp, tie the hands; double up, prostrate, paralyze, muzzle, cripple, becripple, maim, lame, hamstring, draw the teeth of; throttle, strangle, garrotte, garrote; ratten, silence, sprain, clip the wings of, put hors de combat, spike the guns; take the wind out of one's sails, scotch the snake, put a spoke in one's wheel; break the neck, break the back; unhinge, unfit; put out of gear.

Lowness

Adjective: low, neap, debased; nether, nether most; flat, level with the ground; lying low; Verb: crouched, subjacent, squat, prostrate; (horizontal).

Respect

Adjective: respecting;Verb: respectful, deferential, decorous, reverential, obsequious, ceremonious, bareheaded, cap in hand, on one's knees; prostrate; (servile).

Servility

Adjective: servile, obsequious; supple,supple as a glove; soapy, oily, pliant, cringing, abased, dough-faced, fawning, slavish, groveling, sniveling, mealy-mouthed; beggarly, sycophantic, parasitical; abject, prostrate, down on ones marrowbones; base, mean, sneaking; crouching; Verb:

Crosswords: Prostrate

Books

• European Urology Hormonal Effects on Prostrate Cancer Growth: Recent Scientific Progress and Clinical Outcome (European Urology) (reference)

• Hard Bargain: Life-Lessons from Prostrate Cancer... a Love Story (reference)

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Tyrants prostrate liberty triumphant. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the tree of Creation and contemplating its vast ramifications full of stars.

Tom stood over the prostrate man.

An unclean person is universally a slothful one, one who sits by a stove, whom the sun shines on prostrate, who reposes without being fatigued.

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Human Rights

Zimbabwe

They forced Javangwe to lie prostrate and beat him all over his body; he sustained multiple injuries to the head, ears, and left leg, and suffered a fracture of his left hand. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "prostrate": prostrate oneself ♦ prostrate wit grief. Additional references.

Ending with "prostrate": semi-prostrate.

Albanian

i shtrirë (expansive, extensive, outspread, outstretched, prone, recumbent, spreading), i rraskapitur (dead beat, done, exhausted, frazzle, stale, washed out, washout, whacked, worn out), i kapitur (languishing), i gjunjëzuar, gjunjëzohem (be submitted, bend, fall upon one's knees, genuflect, kneel, kneel down). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مهنك القوى, ‏منبطح (lying down, procumbent, prone, recumbent), ‏متمدد (dilatable, expanded, expansive, prone), ‏نهك (exhaust, fatigue, fray, frazzle, gruel, harass, jade, macerate, overdo, overload, overstrain, spend, wear), ‏واهن (atonal, atonic, crazy, doddery, effete, enervate, feeble, flagging, impotent, infirm, invalidity, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, lower, nerveless, powerless, rusty, shrivelled, sickly, sluggish, spiritless, stunted, tender, weak, weakling, weakly, wimp), ‏غلب (defeat, overmaster, overpower, overwhelm, predominate, prevail, subdue), ‏سقطه أرضا, ‏سطح (face, flat, flatness, flatten, press, roof, spread, superficies, surface), ‏سجد (kneel, kowtow, worship), ‏ساجد (bowing, kneeling), ‏زل نفسه, ‏خر (babble, fall, murmur), ‏إنبطح (grovel, sprawl). (various references)

Bulgarian 

легнал (abed, flat, procumbent, recumbent), изтощен (all in, bushed, down and out, effete, emaciated, enervate, exhausted, gaunt, jaded, limp, perished, played out, run down, screwy, shagged out, shot, sick, spent, used up, weary, whacked), подчинявам (bend, overmaster, overpower, subdue, subject, subordinate, tame, tie down, vanquish), победен (beaten, defeated, triumphant, victorious, victory), повален (broken, felled, thrown down), повалям (blow down, bring down, deck, drop, fell, flatten, fling down, floor, hew, knock down, lay low, lay out, level, overthrow, pole-ax, precipitate, run down, shoot down, stretch out, strike, strike down, throw down, tumble down, zap), покрусен (broken hearted, deeply grieved), проснат (procumbent, prone, stretched), изтощавам (bucket, crock, deplete, distress, do in, emaciate, exhaust, extend, fag, farm out, fatigue, frazzle, gruel, impoverish, kill, leech, overcrop, overwork, play out, poop, pump, pump out, punish, rack, reduce, run down, sew up, spend, tire out, tucker, waste), пълзящ (creeping, procumbent, rambling, repent, reptile, running, scandent, serpigious), съсипвам (bust, ruin, scathe, spifflicate, total, wear down, wear out, wrack), отчайвам (discourage, disharden, dispirit), капнал (all in, dead, run down, shot, washed out), смазан (down and out, laden), смазвам (bow down, grease, jam, lubricate, mop up, oil, overbear, overwhelm, pulverize, slush, smash, smear, squelch, steamroller, tread down, tread under, unstring, weigh down, whelm), свалям (bring down, cast off, doff, douse, down, drop, drop off, get down, get off, land, lay, let off, overthrow, prang, pull down, pull off, put down, put off, reach down, remove, ring down, rip down, rush, set down, shuck off, shuffle off, stretch, take down, take off, tear away, tear down, tear off, throw off, turn down, unbelt, uncap, unhorse, unship, vail), унижавам (abase, bring down, condescend, debase, degrade, demean, disgrace, gall, humble, humiliate, lour, lower, mortify, put down, sink), събарям (bowl over, break down, bring down, demolish, dismantle, fell, fling, fling down, grass, kick over, knock down, knock off, lay low, overthrow, pull down, push down, push over, rase, raze, ride down, run down, subvert, tear down, throw down), съсипан (burnt-out, bust, done, shaky, washed up), прострян. (various references)

Chinese 

踣 (corpse), 疐 , 伏 (conceal, submit). (various references)

Czech

položit (lay, lay down, pose, put, put down, repose, set, superimpose), pokořený, přemoci (conquer, defeat, fight down, master, overbear, overcome, overmaster, overpower, overwhelm, reduce, stifle, surmount, swallow, vanquish), přemožený, ležící tváří k zemi (decumbent). (various references)

Danish

vejpileurt (knotgrass, knotweed, prostrate knotweed). (various references)

Dutch

varkensgras (knotgrass). (various references)

Farsi 

افتادن (Drop, Fall, Keel, Lie, Stump, Tumble), روی زمین خوابیده , دمرخوابیده , درمانده وبیچاره شدن . (various references)

Finnish

näännyttää (exhaust), näännys (exhaust). (various references)

French

prostré (prone), prosterné, prolongé (prolonged, prone, protracted), mettre par terre, battre, accabler, accablé, � plat ventre (prone). (various references)

German

zusammenbrechen lassen, zu boden werfen, sich niederwerfen, niederschmettern (batter down, shatter, smash down), mitnehmen (be bad for, bear, borrow, bring along, bring away, exhaust, get in, give a lift, pick up, pick-up, pull down, shatter, take, take along, take around, take in, take up, take with one, to pick up, to pick-up, to take along, upset, walk off with, weaken), hingestreckt (prone), erschöpft (effete, exhausted, exhausts, impoverished, jaded, outworn, overwrought, pinched, spent, worn out), erschöpfen (exhaust, fatigue, tire out, to exhaust, wear out, work out), ausgestreckt (elongated, extended, outstretched, sprawling, upstretched). (various references)

Greek 

κατάκοιτοσ (bed ridden, bedridden, confined to bed), μπρούντζοσ (bronze), εξηπλωμένοσ, εξαπλώνω κάτω, ταπείνωση (abasement, abjection, humiliation, ignominy, mortification). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"שתטח (fall flat, flatten), ל�"פיל ארצ�" (bowl over). (various references)

Hungarian

megsemmisített, elterült (prone), megalázkodó (subservient), letört (low-spirited), lesújtott (afflicted, subdued), leborult, hason csúszó, földön kúszó, földön fekvő, elesett (fallen, killed in action, killed wounded or missing), elernyedt, arcra borult. (various references)

Indonesian

bersujud (kneel). (various references)

Italian

prostrato (procumbent), prostrare (exhaust), accasciare (crush, fall, lose heart, wear out), abbattuto (beaten, crestfallen, dejected, depressed, despondent, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, glum, low, moped). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

臥す (to bend down, to bow down, to lie prostrate), 突っ伏す (to fall prostrate), 土下座 (kneeling down on the ground, prostrate oneself), 平伏す (to prostrate oneself before), 平伏 (falling prostrate), 伏す (to bend down, to bow down, to prostrate), 伏 (bend down, crouch, fall prostrate, hide, lie down, prostrate oneself, stoop, submit to, yield to), 俯す (to bend down, to bow down, to prostrate oneself). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

がす (gas, to bend down, to bow down, to lie prostrate), ひれふす (to prostrate oneself before), ふす (to bend down, to bow down, to prostrate oneself), ふく (additional, assistant, associate, auxiliary, bend down, clothes, collateral, compound, copy, crawl, crouch, deputy, double, duplicate, fall prostrate, good fortune, hide, lie down, prostrate oneself, stoop, sub-, submit to, substitute, supplementary, to blow, to dry, to emit, to spout, to wipe, vice-, yield to), ど�'ざ (kneeling down on the ground, prostrate oneself), つっぷす (to fall prostrate), へいふく (civilian clothes, falling prostrate, ordinary clothes, plain clothes, restoration to health). (various references)

Manx

sleaghtit, sleaghtaghey (grovel, grovelling, kneel, kneeling, slide), sheeynt (at full stretch, dilated, drawn out, extended, flat out, laid out, low-pitched, outstretched, procumbent, prolonged, prostrated, rakish, sprained, sprawling, spreadeagled, strained, stretched, stretched out, tense, tense of moment, widespread), sheeyney (dilation, elongate, extension, give, hand, increase, lengthen, lengthening, marry, pass, produce, production, prolongation, prostration, range, rick, spin out, sprain, spraining, spread, strain, stretch, stretch out, stretching, tension, uncoil), lhie nane (prostrated). (various references)

Pig Latin

ostratepray

Portuguese

prostrar (kotow, kowtow), prostrado (decumbent, procumbent), humilhar (abase, abash, bemean, cast down, cheapen, demean, depress, humble, humiliate, let down, lour, lower, mortify), humilhado (abased, chapfallen, humiliated), estendido por terra, derrubar (down, fell, floor, grass, hew, hew down, knock, knock down, lay, overset, overthrow, overturn, pull down, put down, shoot down, subvert, throw, tumble, unbuild, upset), derrubado, cair (collapse, drop, fall, flump, founder, go down, hang, keel over, lapse, pelt, plump, prey, sink, sleet, topple), caído (dejected, droopy, fallen), apático (apathetic, apathetical, bovine, cool, drowsy, frigid, languid, lethargic, listless, sleepy, toneless), abatido (broken-hearted, crestfallen, dead-alive, dejected, depressed, despondent, dismal, down, downcast, down-hearted, dumpish, haggard, hagridden, heavy-laden, joyless, languishing, low-spirited, melancholy, moped, reduced, wan, washed-out, woebegone), abater (abased, abater, butcher, deject, depress, discount, dishearten, down, fell, knock down, lay, lower, rebate, reduce, retrench, shoot down, sink, slaughter, tumble down, unman, weaken). (various references)

Romanian

târâtor (crawling, creeping, creepy, cringing, decumbent, grovelling, reptile), stors (drained), se umili (cower, crouch, eat humble pie, grovel, kiss the dust, lower, truckle), epuizat (effete, exhausted, jaded, out of print, out of stock, outworn, worn out), epuiza (consume, crock, deplete, distress, drain, drive, emaciate, exhaust, jade, outwork, overdrive, spend, use up, waste), doborî (beat, bring, bring low, cut down, fell, floor, grass, ground, hew down, knock down, overcome, overpower, smash, strike down, tip), culcat la pãmânt, culca la pãmânt (knock down), copleşi (crush, flood, heap, invade, load, overcome, overpower, overwhelm, pelt, shower, smother, stun, whelm), întins pe pãmânt, întins la pãmânt. (various references)

Russian 

стелющийся (procumbent), распростертый (outspread, outstretched, prone), поверженный, изнеможенный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ispružen (outstretched). (various references)

Spanish

postrado (bedridden). (various references)

Swedish

utsträckt (broad, extent, outstretched, sprawled), hjälplös (feckless, helpless, incapable). (various references)

Turkish

perişan etmek (bring to ruin, desolate, drag down, scatter), perişan (confused, dead beat, dead end, desolate, distraught, down and out, down at heels, forlorn, hangdog, out at elbows, poor, ruinous, run down, scattered, seedy, shoestring, up the spout, wretched), yormak (attribute, cream, do in, do up, exhaust, fag, fag out, fatigue, frazzle, knock out, poop, strain, take out, task, tax, tire, try, Tucker, tucker out, wear out, wearisome, weary), yere yatırmak, yere sermek (beat down, down, grass, ground, kayo, knock down, knock galley-west, lay low, lay out, lay smb. low, send smb. flying, send smb. sprawling), yere serilmiş, yüzükoyun yatmış, halsiz bırakmak (enfeeble, tire out, tire to death), halsiz (drooping, droopy, exhausted, faint, groggy, infirm, languid, languorous, run down, senile, sluggish, very tired, washy, weak, weakly, wonky), bitkin (all in, all out, beat, broken down, bushed, dead beat, dog tired, drained, drawn, drawn out, drooping, effete, exhausted, faint, forworn, haggard, jaded, knackered, languorous, overdone, played out, pooped, pooped out, run down, spent, stale, tired, tired to death, toilworn, tuckered out, used up, washed out, weakly, weary, whacked, wonky, worn, worn out, worn to a frazzle, wretched, zonked), ayağına kapanmış. (various references)

Ukrainian

скинути (cashier, cast, overthrow, overturn, slip off, whip off), розпростертий (outspread, outstretched), виснажувати (attenuate, crock, debilitate, depauperate, deplete, distress, drain, emaciate, exhaust, impoverish, macerate, overcome, overdrive, pull down, sap, use up, waste), знеможений, зломити (overpower), повалений, повалити (cashier, lay, overthrow, overturn). (various references)

Vietnamese 

nằm úp sấp, kiệt sức (adynamic, crocky, down, effete, forspent, toil-worn), bị lật nh� o mệt lử. (various references)

Welsh

ymgreinio (grovel, prostrate oneself). (various references)

afflictus, iace, iacebant, iacebat, iacebis, iacebunt, iacent, iacentem, iacentes, iacentis, iacere, iacerent, iaceret, iaces, iacet, iacuerat, iacuerit, iacuero, iacuerunt, iacui, iacuit, Polygonum aviculare, prosternamur, prosternat, prosternebaris, prosternens, prosternent, prosternerem, prosternerent, prosterneret, prosternite, prosterno, prosterno, -ere, -stravi, -stratum, prostrata, prostrati, prostratis, prostratorum, prostratus, prostraverunt, prostravi, prostravit. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "prostrate": prostrated, prostrates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Prostrate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Erostarbe, peristriate, postrate, prostarte, prostata, prostatte. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: praetors, prorates, prostate, rostrate.

-2 letters: esparto, parrots, patters, porters, potters, praetor, praters, presort, pretors, prorate, proteas, protest, raptors, ratters, reports, restart, retorts, roaster, rotates, rotters, seaport, spatter, sporter, spotter, starter, stertor, tapster, teapots, toaster.

-3 letters: aptest, arrest, oaters, operas, orates, ottars, otters, pareos, parers, parrot, parser, paster, pastor, paters, patter, porter, poster, potter.

+1 letter: postarrest, prostrated, prostrates, tetraspore.

+2 letters: extirpators, paternoster, tetraspores, tetrasporic, transported, transportee, transporter, trapshooter, triceratops.

+3 letters: counterparts, orthopterans, partitioners, paternosters, perpetrators, perpetuators, portraitures, postfracture, proletariats, repartitions, shatterproof, sportscaster, stratosphere, superpatriot, transportees, transporters, trapshooters, vituperators.

+4 letters: antipredators, arthropathies, cotransported, extrapolators, interpolators, perpetrations, perturbations, postfractures, practitioners, precipitators, predestinator, premeditators, procrastinate, protectorates, protonotaries, repatriations, sportscasters, stratospheres, stratospheric, superpatriots, tetrapyrroles, transportable, triceratopses, trichopterans.