prostrate
adjective
• lying stretched out on the ground with one's face downwards.
• "there was a man praying before an idol, lying prostrate"
Similar:
prone,
lying flat,
lying down,
flat,
stretched out,
spreadeagled,
sprawling,
horizontal,
recumbent,
on one's front,
procumbent,
• growing along the ground.
• "mats of prostrate herbs can be used to break up expanses of soil"
prostrate
verb
• throw oneself flat on the ground so as to be lying face downwards, especially in reverence or submission.
• "she prostrated herself on the bare floor of the church"
Similar:
throw oneself flat,
throw oneself down,
lie down,
stretch oneself out,
bow low,
measure one's length,
• reduce (someone) to extreme physical weakness.
• "she was so prostrated by migraine that she could scarcely totter up the stairs to bed"
Similar:
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,
knacker,
whack,
frazzle,
do in,
knock out,
fag out,
poop,
Origin:
Middle English: from Latin prostratus ‘thrown down’, past participle of prosternere, from pro- ‘before’ + sternere ‘lay flat’.
