Word Meanings - PROSTRATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Trailing on the ground; procumbent. (more info) prostrate; pro before, forward + sternere to spread out, throw down. 1. Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate Elyot.

Additional info about word: PROSTRATE

Trailing on the ground; procumbent. (more info) prostrate; pro before, forward + sternere to spread out, throw down. 1. Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate Elyot. Groveling and prostrate on yon lake of fire. Milton. 2. Lying at mercy, as a supplicant. Dryden. 3. Lying in a humble, lowly, or suppliant posture. Prostrate fall Before him reverent, and there confess Humbly our faults. Milton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROSTRATE)

• Fell
• Cut
• level
• prostrate
• demolish
• subvert
• waste
• bare
• Lay
• Place
• establish
• deposit
• allay
• arrange
• dispose
• put
• spread
• set down
• Paralyze
• Deaden
• benumb
• enervate
• debilitate
• enfeeble
• Prone
• Disposed
• inclined
• bent
• tending
• apt
• recumbent
• flat
• Raze
• Demolish
• overthrow
• dismantle
• reduce
• ruin
• destroy
• debase

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PROSTRATE)

• Roughen
• furrow
• disequalize
• graduate

Related words: (words related to PROSTRATE)

• DISPOSEMENT
  Disposal. Goodwin.
• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• TENDER
  A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes
• DEPOSITOR
  One who makes a deposit, especially of money in bank; -- the correlative of depository.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• DISPOSURE
  1. The act of disposing; power to dispose of; disposal; direction. Give up My estate to his disposure. Massinger. 2. Disposition; arrangement; position; posture. In a kind of warlike disposure. Sir H. Wotton.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• DISPOSITED
  Disposed. Glanvill.
• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• DESTROYABLE
  Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.
• TENDERLY
  In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly. Chaucer.
• TENDANCE
  1. The act of attending or waiting; attendance. Spenser. The breath Of her sweet tendance hovering over him. Tennyson. 2. Persons in attendance; attendants. Shak.
• TENDERNESS
  The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy.
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• PARALYZE
  1. To affect or strike with paralysis or palsy. 2. Fig.: To unnerve; to destroy or impair the energy of; to render ineffective; as, the occurrence paralyzed the community; despondency paralyzed his efforts.
• BENUMBED
  Made torpid; numbed; stupefied; deadened; as, a benumbed body and mind. -- Be*numbed"ness, n.
• DISPOSITOR
  The planet which is lord of the sign where another planet is. Crabb. (more info) 1. A disposer.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• SEA LEVEL
  The level of the surface of the sea; any surface on the same level with the sea.
• SELF-DESTROYER
  One who destroys himself; a suicide.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• INTENDENT
  See N