prostrate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   render helpless or defenseless

   They prostrated the enemy

2. 2
   verb

   throw down flat, as on the ground

   I prostrated myself with frustration.

3. 3
   adj

   Lying flat, face-down.

   Prostrate fall / Before him reverent, and there confess / Humbly our faults.

4. 4
   adj

   Physically incapacitated from environmental exposure or debilitating disease.

   He was prostrate from the extreme heat.

5. 5
   verb

   To throw oneself down in submission.

   Those who had the privilege of approaching him, had to prostrate themselves before him in profound humility[…]

6. 6
   verb

   To cause to lie down, to flatten.

   How many of these mighty pines were to be prostrated under that approaching tempest!

7. 7
   verb

   To overcome or overpower.

   Why this very minute she's prostrated with grief.

8. 8
   adj

   stretched out and lying at full length along the ground

Etymology

From Middle English prostraten (“(reflexive) to prostrate; (with doun) to fall down in a state of humility or submission”), from prostrat(e) (“prostrate, prostrated”, also used as the past participle of prostraten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), from Latin prōstrātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.