prostrate

1. a. Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate. Source: opted

2. a. Lying at mercy, as a supplicant. Source: opted

3. a. Lying in a humble, lowly, or suppliant posture. Source: opted

4. a. Trailing on the ground; procumbent. Source: opted

5. v. t. To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants. Source: opted

6. 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. Source: opted

7. 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. Source: opted

8. v. t. To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to reduce; as, a person prostrated by fever. Source: opted

9. adj. stretched out and lying at full length along the ground Source: wordnet

10. adj. lying face downward Source: wordnet

11. v. get into a prostrate position, as in submission Source: wordnet

12. v. render helpless or defenseless Source: wordnet

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