1. prostrate - Adjective
2. prostrate - Verb
3. prostrate - Adjective Satellite
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe frame wearied with labours lies prostrate on the ground, but it is no penalty to lie down with Christ. Your limbs unbathed, are foul and disfigured with filth and dirt; but within they are spiritually cleansed, although without the flesh is defiled. Cyprian
We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate. Lydia Maria Child
We can do little things for God; I turn the cake that is frying on the pan for love of him, and that done, if there is nothing else to call me, I prostrate myself in worship before him, who has given me grace to work; afterwards I rise happier than a king. Brother Lawrence
The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise. Thomas Love Peacock
I prostrate myself for the sake of Gula, my lady, but in my own eyes I don't have a place to stand. Sumerian Proverb