prostrate
prostrate is a 9-letter English word with 13 senses as adjective, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- adjective. Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate.
- adjective. Lying at mercy, as a supplicant.
- adjective. Lying in a humble, lowly, or suppliant posture.
- adjective. Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
- transitive verb. To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants.
- transitive verb. 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.
- transitive verb. To throw down, or cause to fall in humility or adoration; to cause to bow in humble reverence; used reflexively; as, he prostrated himself.
- transitive verb. To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to reduce; as, a person prostrated by fever.
- verb. render helpless or defenseless
"They prostrated the enemy"
- verb. throw down flat, as on the ground
"She prostrated herself with frustration"
- verb. get into a prostrate position, as in submission
- adjective. stretched out and lying at full length along the ground
"found himself lying flat on the floor"
- adjective. lying face downward
Synonyms
Common word forms
prostrated, prostrates, prostrating
Words from these letters
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