prostrate
/ˈpɹɑstɹeɪt/ verb C2- To lie flat or face-down.
- To throw oneself down in submission.
- To cause to lie down, to flatten.
- To overcome or overpower.
He/she/it prostrates · Past prostrated · Past participle prostrated · -ing form prostrating
Verb forms
- Base form
- prostrate
- He/she/it
- prostrates
- Past
- prostrated
- Past participle
- prostrated
- -ing form
- prostrating
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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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