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prostrate

/pros-treyt/US // ˈprɒs treɪt //

匍匐前进,平卧,匍匐前行,匍匐

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v.有主动词 verb
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    pros·trat·ed, pros·trat·ing.

    • : to cast face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.
    • : to lay flat, as on the ground.
    • : to throw down level with the ground.
    • : to overthrow, overcome, or reduce to helplessness.
    • : to reduce to physical weakness or exhaustion.
adj.形容词 adjective
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    • : lying flat or at full length, as on the ground.
    • : lying face down on the ground, as in token of humility, submission, or adoration.
    • : overthrown, overcome, or helpless: a country left prostrate by natural disasters.
    • : physically weak or exhausted.
    • : submissive.
    • : utterly dejected or depressed; disconsolate.
    • : Botany. lying flat on the ground.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.tired, worn
verboverwhelm; wear out
Antonyms

Examples

  • Mules pulled ramshackle carts, children played outside mud houses, burqa-shrouded women lay prostrate and begging in the middle of dusty roads.

  • Prostrate she fell on the floor; but hearing a waiter say, 'Up stairs, madam, you may have a room to yourself.'

  • Prostrate or ascending, much branched; leaves round-obovate to rhomboidal, 3–10 long.

  • Prostrate beside him, Sembobitis and Menkera worshipped, their faces touching the stone.

  • Prostrate under the dread of death, her innermost nature—stripped of the concealments of her later life—was revealed to view.

  • Prostrate by his side lay the prince, in a state of insensibility, the blood faintly oozing from a wound in his arm.