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prostrate [pros-treyt]
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prostrate [pros-treyt]
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: flat, horizontal
Synonyms: abject, bowed low, procumbent, prone, reclining, recumbent, supine
Notes: prone is lying on your face (facing downwards) - which is also true for prostrate, but only in expressing adoration or begging for protection; supine is lying on your back
prostate is the gland; prostrate means 'lying face down'
supine is lying face upward, prone and prostrate are lying face downward - and prostrate suggests throwing oneself down, while recumbent is lying flat in any position
Antonyms: erect, straight, upright, vertical
Main Entry: prostrate
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: tired, worn
Synonyms: crippled, dejected, depressed, disarmed, drained, drowned, exhausted, fagged, fallen, frazzled, immobilized, incapacitated, inconsolable, knocked over, obedient, overcome, paralyzed, pooped, spent*, submissive, subservient, tuckered, wearied, worn out
Antonyms: hale, healthy, strong
Main Entry: prostrate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: fall on knees; submit
Synonyms: abase, bow, bow down, cast before, cringe, fall at feet, give in, grovel, kneel, kowtow, obey, surrender
Antonyms: erect, stand, straighten
Main Entry: prostrate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: overwhelm; wear out
Synonyms: bring low, cripple, debilitate, defeat, destroy, disable, disarm, drain, drown, exhaust, fatigue, fell, floor, frazzle, immobilize, impair, incapacitate, knock over, level, mow, overcome, overpower, overthrow, overtire, overturn, paralyze, reduce, ruin, sap, tire, tucker out, weary, whelm, wreck
Antonyms: aid, assist, assuage, help, please, soothe
Main Entry: bedridden
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: sick in bed
Synonyms: ailing, disabled, flat on one's back, ill, incapacitated, infirm, invalid, laid up, prostrate
Main Entry: bring down
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: reduce or hurt
Synonyms: KO, abase, cut down, damage, drop, fell, floor, injure, knock down, lay low, level, lower, mow down, murder*, overthrow, overturn, prostrate, pull down, shoot down, slay, throw down, tumble, undermine, upset, wound
Antonyms: aid, encourage, help, raise
Main Entry: cripple
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: disable; make lame
Synonyms: attenuate, blunt, debilitate, disarm, dislimb, dismember, enfeeble, hamstring, hurt, immobilize, incapacitate, injure, lame, maim, mangle, mutilate, palsy, paralyze, prostrate, sap, sideline, stifle, undermine, unstrengthen, weaken
Antonyms: aid, assist, enable, help, strengthen, support
Main Entry: debilitate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: incapacitate
Synonyms: attenuate, blunt, cripple, devitalize, disable, enervate, enfeeble, eviscerate, exhaust, extenuate, harm, hurt, injure, mar, prostrate, relax, sap, spoil, unbrace, undermine, unstrengthen, weaken, wear out
Antonyms: aid, assist, cure, energize, help, invigorate, mend, strengthen
Main Entry: disable
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: render inoperative; cripple
Synonyms: attenuate, batter, blunt, damage, debilitate, disarm, disenable, disqualify, enervate, enfeeble, exhaust, hamstring, handicap, harm, hock, hogtie, hurt, immobilize, impair, incapacitate, invalidate, kibosh, knock out, maim, mangle, mar, mutilate, muzzle, paralyze, pinion, prostrate, put out of action, render incapable, ruin, sabotage, sap, shatter, shoot down, spoil, take out*, throw monkey wrench in, total*, unbrace, undermine, unfit, unstrengthen, weaken, wreck
Antonyms: aid, assist, enable, help, improve
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