prostrate: signification et définitions

To put or throw flat with the face down, as in submission or adoration: "He did not simply sit and meditate, he also knelt down, sometimes even prostrated himself” ( Iris Murdoch).

To cause to lie flat: The wind prostrated the young trees.

To reduce to extreme weakness or incapacitation; overcome: an illness that prostrated an entire family; a nation that was prostrated by years of civil war.

Lying face down, as in submission or adoration.

Lying flat or at full length.

Reduced to extreme weakness or incapacitation; overcome.

Botany Growing flat along the ground.