prostrate
/ˈpɹɑstɹeɪt/ adjectif C2- Lying flat, face-down.
- Emotionally devastated.
- Physically incapacitated from environmental exposure or debilitating disease. · He was prostrate from the extreme heat.
- Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
Dans la bibliothèque
We had carried the prostrate body to the sofa.
The two Cunninghams were bending over the prostrate figure of Sherlock Holmes, the younger clutching his throat with both hands, while the elder seemed to be twisting one of his wrists.
It was a prostrate man face downward upon the ground, the head doubled under him at a horrible angle, the shoulders rounded and the body hunched together as if in the act of throwing a somersault.
Danglars uttered a cry, and fell prostrate.
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