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Definition of prostrate in English: prostrateadjective ˈprɒstreɪtˈprɑstreɪt 1Lying stretched out on the ground with one's face downwards. 俯卧的；卧倒的 there was a man praying before an idol, lying prostrate they surged forward around the prostrate figure on the ground Example sentencesExamples - This is a fascinating, frustrating, entertaining and perplexing voyage through his psyche: a posthumous psychoanalysis in which the prostrate subject never gets the chance to sit up and protest.
- I soon settled in for some rigorous study, busying myself with my alternately prone and prostrate experiments.
- Interestingly, Rembrandt overpainted the figure of a prostrate woman at Christ's feet with the present kneeling figure.
- The contact looked innocuous enough but it left the big Glasgow prop prostrate on the ground, his body convulsing in a way that ensured the medics lost no time going to his aid.
- Some of the people around me lay prostrate on the ground, while others milled around, looking, pointing and whispering to each other.
- And when the Earth itself has been laid prostrate?
- Sometimes he was on my legs, other times he was stretched out prostrate across my torso.
- Her eyes immediately fell upon the lone prostrate figure on the bed.
- For my part I was silent on the cause of my own absent-mindedness - the lasses had by now vanished into a studio - and, whilst accepting the proffered hand with which to rise from my prostrate position, observed the man.
- To the left of the prostrate face-up male figure appears a female figure with a highly piled coiffure.
- I once had to step over his not inconsiderable prostrate body to get to my table, after he had clearly been ‘enjoying’ a rather ‘lively’ lunch.
- Rich in texture, colour and clarity, images of laughing Tibetan monks and prostrate beggars bring you directly into the lives of his subjects and have you almost living along with them.
- The Ballroom went instantly silent as everyone stared at my father's prostrate figure.
- I don't actually suffer from it in real life, but in dreams I often find myself lying prostrate and petrified on top of a building, afraid to stand up.
- While strolling, I caught sight of a half-naked, deformed figure lying prostrate on the pavement.
- According to a storekeeper, at about 9: 10 pm, a man was spotted prostrate on the ground by a police car.
- A few of the medics rushed over to kneel and check the prostrate figures.
- Carrying her prostrate figure, he straightened and threw our direction one triumphant look before encasing them both with his majestic wing and fading into nothingness.
- The sermon was accompanied by such divine power that the whole congregation, except one man, fell prostrate upon the floor, and voiced their agony under conviction of sin, in such loud outcries that the preacher was forced to stop.
- How long will the mainstream media lie prostrate for this kind of insulting and deeply contemptuous nonsense, which weakens our nation and leaves us more vulnerable to attack than we were before?
Synonyms prone, lying flat, lying down, flat, stretched out, spreadeagled, sprawling, horizontal, recumbent, on one's front rare procumbent - 1.1predicative Completely overcome or helpless, especially with distress or exhaustion.
〈喻〉衰竭的，沮丧的；被征服的 his wife was prostrate with shock 他妻子震惊得昏倒了。 Example sentencesExamples - So many women would have been hysterical and prostrate with grief by this stage.
Synonyms overwhelmed, overcome, overpowered, brought to one's knees, crushed, stunned, dazed speechless, helpless, paralysed, laid low, impotent informal knocked/hit for six worn out, exhausted, fatigued, tired out, overtired, weary, sapped, dog-tired, spent, drained, played out, debilitated, enervated, low informal all in, done (in/up), dead, dead beat, dead tired, dead on one's feet, ready to drop, fagged out, bushed, whacked, worn to a frazzle, burnt-out British informal knackered North American informal pooped
2Botany
Growing along the ground. 〔植〕平卧的，匍匐的，爬地的 mats of prostrate herbs can be used to break up expanses of soil Example sentencesExamples - They are decumbent, not prostrate, so that the young branch tips point upward.
- The duckweeds grow in a prostrate orientation upon the surface of water and rely on the buoyant forces of their environment for support, rather than lignified structures.
- P. myriophylla is a woody subshrub that forms patches of prostrate or decumbent stems often rooting at the nodes.
- In that area, natural Atriplex cover was very low, with only some prostrate plants growing on creek banks.
- Older studies noted that runners, stolons or prostrate stems of many plants became more erect when shaded.
Synonyms trailing, creeping, straggling, vining
verb prɒˈstreɪtˈprɑstreɪt [with object]1prostrate oneselfThrow oneself flat on the ground so as to be lying face downwards, especially in reverence or submission. （尤指尊敬或屈从）使（自己）俯伏；使拜倒 she prostrated herself on the bare floor of the church 她匍匐在教堂光秃秃的地板上。 Example sentencesExamples - But now it's clear that what I should have been doing is prostrating myself on the carpet and having the word ‘doormat’ tattooed on my backside.
- The natives who came to see them off prostrated themselves on the ground and cried in farewell.
- The hyena prostrated herself to the earth, throwing herself on her knees, bending her paws, moving her head up and down, looking up into his face, as though she were giving him her promise.
- Still, however, a Buddhist will prostrate himself and bow his head to the floor three times in front of a Buddha image or a monk as a sign of respect.
- Your teacher will not wear curious robes or expect you to prostrate yourself every time he or she enters the room.
- When Roshi came out of his room to wash, the monk was prostrating himself outside the door.
- Another (even greater) problem was that she was unwilling to submit to her dictates or prostrate herself in abject submission.
- The president was overpowered by the General's position, and prostrated himself as flat as a spider in a deep bow, and apologized humbly.
- The troll echoed the sentiment and prostrated himself on the floor.
- In fact the whole country has seen him on television prostrating himself in front of the Prime Minister's residence, but public memory is short and as you said, he is no celebrity.
- Some of the men had prostrated themselves flat on their faces, arms outstretched towards the Goddess.
- Probably, like Lot, he's prostrating himself, falling on his face to the earth.
- He has been allowed to keep his sword but the next time he swings it around his head and demands that opponents fall down and prostrate themselves in front of him, the sound of muffled laughter will be difficult to suppress.
- This is complete nonsense, as anyone who has mistakenly prostrated themselves before the person of their dreams will confirm.
- Did all the many pairs of eyes that must have looked at this sorry text before publication belong to people too busy prostrating themselves in deference to the living treasure who wrote it?
- He spent untold hours in prayer, prostrating himself on the floor of the church at night.
- They throw their crowns before this throne and prostrate themselves as servants of this Lord, singing.
- ‘You are Canada's pride. You are Canada to me,’ he uttered, virtually prostrating himself in front of them in hopes of scoring some elusive Alberta votes.
- In Tibet, he goes on a high altitude pilgrimage, a kora or circumambulation, around the very sacred Mt. Kailash, with devotees prostrating themselves on their stomachs around the base of the mountain in a journey that can last for weeks.
- He prostrated himself, but his trivial performance only brought on more tears and anger.
Synonyms throw oneself flat, throw oneself down, lie down, stretch oneself out, bow low, throw oneself at someone's feet dated measure one's length 2Reduce (someone) to extreme physical weakness. she was so prostrated by migraine that she could scarcely totter up the stairs to bed 偏头痛把她折腾得连跌跌撞撞登楼上床都极为困难。 Example sentencesExamples - She quickly ran up to him in time to catch him in her arms and with horror heard the wild scream of the spirit that racked and prostrated the unhappy man.
- Drenched in sweat, they are prostrated by fatigue, ‘sucking in hot air like bellows and breathless in the suffocating heat’.
- He never doubted, and gratefully recognized, Mary's own contribution to the device of the joint monarchy, and her death on 27 December 1694 prostrated him for months.
Synonyms overwhelm, overcome, overpower, bring someone to their knees, crush, devastate, make helpless, paralyse, lay low, make powerless, debilitate, incapacitate, weaken, enfeeble, devitalize, enervate, handicap, immobilize, hamstring, make impotent, wear out, exhaust, tire out, fatigue, weary, make weary, drain, sap, wash out, take it out of, tax, overtax, undermine informal knacker, whack, frazzle, do in, knock out, fag out North American informal poop
OriginMiddle English: from Latin prostratus 'thrown down', past participle of prosternere, from pro- 'before' + sternere 'lay flat'. Rhymesabate, ablate, aerate, ait, await, backdate, bait, bate, berate, castrate, collate, conflate, crate, create, cremate, date, deflate, dictate, dilate, distraite, donate, downstate, eight, elate, equate, estate, fate, fête, fixate, freight, frustrate, gait, gate, gestate, gradate, grate, great, gyrate, hate, hydrate, inflate, innate, interrelate, interstate, irate, Kate, Kuwait, lactate, late, locate, lustrate, mandate, mate, migrate, misdate, misstate, mistranslate, mutate, narrate, negate, notate, orate, ornate, Pate, placate, plate, prate, prorate, pulsate, pupate, quadrate, rate, rotate, sate, sedate, serrate, short weight, skate, slate, spate, spectate, spruit, stagnate, state, straight, strait, Tate, tête-à-tête, Thwaite, translate, translocate, transmigrate, truncate, underrate, understate, underweight, update, uprate, upstate, up-to-date, vacate, vibrate, wait, weight Definition of prostrate in US English: prostrateadjectiveˈprästrātˈprɑstreɪt 1Lying stretched out on the ground with one's face downward. 俯卧的；卧倒的 Example sentencesExamples - Interestingly, Rembrandt overpainted the figure of a prostrate woman at Christ's feet with the present kneeling figure.
- To the left of the prostrate face-up male figure appears a female figure with a highly piled coiffure.
- While strolling, I caught sight of a half-naked, deformed figure lying prostrate on the pavement.
- The Ballroom went instantly silent as everyone stared at my father's prostrate figure.
- According to a storekeeper, at about 9: 10 pm, a man was spotted prostrate on the ground by a police car.
- Carrying her prostrate figure, he straightened and threw our direction one triumphant look before encasing them both with his majestic wing and fading into nothingness.
- How long will the mainstream media lie prostrate for this kind of insulting and deeply contemptuous nonsense, which weakens our nation and leaves us more vulnerable to attack than we were before?
- Her eyes immediately fell upon the lone prostrate figure on the bed.
- The sermon was accompanied by such divine power that the whole congregation, except one man, fell prostrate upon the floor, and voiced their agony under conviction of sin, in such loud outcries that the preacher was forced to stop.
- This is a fascinating, frustrating, entertaining and perplexing voyage through his psyche: a posthumous psychoanalysis in which the prostrate subject never gets the chance to sit up and protest.
- I once had to step over his not inconsiderable prostrate body to get to my table, after he had clearly been ‘enjoying’ a rather ‘lively’ lunch.
- I soon settled in for some rigorous study, busying myself with my alternately prone and prostrate experiments.
- For my part I was silent on the cause of my own absent-mindedness - the lasses had by now vanished into a studio - and, whilst accepting the proffered hand with which to rise from my prostrate position, observed the man.
- I don't actually suffer from it in real life, but in dreams I often find myself lying prostrate and petrified on top of a building, afraid to stand up.
- Sometimes he was on my legs, other times he was stretched out prostrate across my torso.
- Some of the people around me lay prostrate on the ground, while others milled around, looking, pointing and whispering to each other.
- And when the Earth itself has been laid prostrate?
- The contact looked innocuous enough but it left the big Glasgow prop prostrate on the ground, his body convulsing in a way that ensured the medics lost no time going to his aid.
- A few of the medics rushed over to kneel and check the prostrate figures.
- Rich in texture, colour and clarity, images of laughing Tibetan monks and prostrate beggars bring you directly into the lives of his subjects and have you almost living along with them.
Synonyms prone, lying flat, lying down, flat, stretched out, spreadeagled, sprawling, horizontal, recumbent, on one's front - 1.1predicative Completely overcome or helpless, especially with illness, distress, or exhaustion.
〈喻〉衰竭的，沮丧的；被征服的 his wife was prostrate with shock 他妻子震惊得昏倒了。 Example sentencesExamples - So many women would have been hysterical and prostrate with grief by this stage.
Synonyms overwhelmed, overcome, overpowered, brought to one's knees, crushed, stunned, dazed worn out, exhausted, fatigued, tired out, overtired, weary, sapped, dog-tired, spent, drained, played out, debilitated, enervated, low - 1.2Botany Growing along the ground.
〔植〕平卧的，匍匐的，爬地的 Example sentencesExamples - They are decumbent, not prostrate, so that the young branch tips point upward.
- In that area, natural Atriplex cover was very low, with only some prostrate plants growing on creek banks.
- Older studies noted that runners, stolons or prostrate stems of many plants became more erect when shaded.
- The duckweeds grow in a prostrate orientation upon the surface of water and rely on the buoyant forces of their environment for support, rather than lignified structures.
- P. myriophylla is a woody subshrub that forms patches of prostrate or decumbent stems often rooting at the nodes.
Synonyms trailing, creeping, straggling, vining
verbˈprästrātˈprɑstreɪt [with object]1prostrate oneselfLay oneself flat on the ground face downward, especially in reverence or submission. （尤指尊敬或屈从）使（自己）俯伏；使拜倒 she prostrated herself on the bare floor of the church 她匍匐在教堂光秃秃的地板上。 Example sentencesExamples - Did all the many pairs of eyes that must have looked at this sorry text before publication belong to people too busy prostrating themselves in deference to the living treasure who wrote it?
- They throw their crowns before this throne and prostrate themselves as servants of this Lord, singing.
- But now it's clear that what I should have been doing is prostrating myself on the carpet and having the word ‘doormat’ tattooed on my backside.
- He prostrated himself, but his trivial performance only brought on more tears and anger.
- When Roshi came out of his room to wash, the monk was prostrating himself outside the door.
- Another (even greater) problem was that she was unwilling to submit to her dictates or prostrate herself in abject submission.
- ‘You are Canada's pride. You are Canada to me,’ he uttered, virtually prostrating himself in front of them in hopes of scoring some elusive Alberta votes.
- Still, however, a Buddhist will prostrate himself and bow his head to the floor three times in front of a Buddha image or a monk as a sign of respect.
- Some of the men had prostrated themselves flat on their faces, arms outstretched towards the Goddess.
- The hyena prostrated herself to the earth, throwing herself on her knees, bending her paws, moving her head up and down, looking up into his face, as though she were giving him her promise.
- This is complete nonsense, as anyone who has mistakenly prostrated themselves before the person of their dreams will confirm.
- Your teacher will not wear curious robes or expect you to prostrate yourself every time he or she enters the room.
- In fact the whole country has seen him on television prostrating himself in front of the Prime Minister's residence, but public memory is short and as you said, he is no celebrity.
- The president was overpowered by the General's position, and prostrated himself as flat as a spider in a deep bow, and apologized humbly.
- Probably, like Lot, he's prostrating himself, falling on his face to the earth.
- In Tibet, he goes on a high altitude pilgrimage, a kora or circumambulation, around the very sacred Mt. Kailash, with devotees prostrating themselves on their stomachs around the base of the mountain in a journey that can last for weeks.
- He spent untold hours in prayer, prostrating himself on the floor of the church at night.
- The troll echoed the sentiment and prostrated himself on the floor.
- The natives who came to see them off prostrated themselves on the ground and cried in farewell.
- He has been allowed to keep his sword but the next time he swings it around his head and demands that opponents fall down and prostrate themselves in front of him, the sound of muffled laughter will be difficult to suppress.
Synonyms throw oneself flat, throw oneself down, lie down, stretch oneself out, bow low, throw oneself at someone's feet 2(of distress, exhaustion, or illness) reduce (someone) to extreme physical weakness. （痛苦，疲惫，疾病）使衰竭，使疲惫；使沮丧 she was prostrated by a migraine that she could scarcely get up the stairs 偏头痛把她折腾得连跌跌撞撞登楼上床都极为困难。 Example sentencesExamples - He never doubted, and gratefully recognized, Mary's own contribution to the device of the joint monarchy, and her death on 27 December 1694 prostrated him for months.
- Drenched in sweat, they are prostrated by fatigue, ‘sucking in hot air like bellows and breathless in the suffocating heat’.
- She quickly ran up to him in time to catch him in her arms and with horror heard the wild scream of the spirit that racked and prostrated the unhappy man.
Synonyms overwhelm, overcome, overpower, bring someone to their knees, crush, devastate, make helpless, paralyse, lay low, make powerless, debilitate, incapacitate, weaken, enfeeble, devitalize, enervate, handicap, immobilize, hamstring, make impotent, wear out, exhaust, tire out, fatigue, weary, make weary, drain, sap, wash out, take it out of, tax, overtax, undermine
OriginMiddle English: from Latin prostratus ‘thrown down’, past participle of prosternere, from pro- ‘before’ + sternere ‘lay flat’. |