Word Meaning

Meaning of "prostrates" and the crossword clue

- Bow down, ... oneself
- Bows down, ... oneself
- Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate.
- Lying at mercy, as a supplicant.
- Lying in a humble, lowly, or suppliant posture.
- Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
- To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants.
- to overthrow; to demolish; to destroy; to deprive of efficiency; to ruin; as, to prostrate a village; to prostrate a government; to prostrate law or justice.
- To throw down, or cause to fall in humility or adoration; to cause to bow in humble reverence; used reflexively; as, he prostrated himself.
- To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to reduce; as, a person prostrated by fever.