Dictionary Entry
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.
9 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 12 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate.
- 2adjective
Lying at mercy, as a supplicant.
- 3adjective
Lying in a humble, lowly, or suppliant posture.
- 4adjective
Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
- 5transitive verb
To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants.
- 6transitive 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.
- 7transitive 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.
- 8transitive verb
To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to reduce; as, a person prostrated by fever.
- 9verb
render helpless or defenseless
"They prostrated the enemy"
- 10verb
throw down flat, as on the ground
"She prostrated herself with frustration"
- 11verb
get into a prostrate position, as in submission
- 12adjective
stretched out and lying at full length along the ground
"found himself lying flat on the floor"
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- 13adjective
lying face downward
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