英语词汇“prostrate”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

prostrate

adjective /ˈprɒstreɪt

1Lying stretched out on the ground with one’s face downwards: there was a man praying before an idol, lying prostrate they surged forward around the prostrate figure on the ground...

I don't actually suffer from it in real life, but in dreams I often find myself lying prostrate and petrified on top of a building, afraid to stand up.
Sometimes he was on my legs, other times he was stretched out prostrate across my torso.
While strolling, I caught sight of a half-naked, deformed figure lying prostrate on the pavement.

Synonyms

prone, lying flat, lying down, flat, stretched out, spreadeagled, sprawling, horizontal, recumbent, on one's front

rare procumbent

1.1 [predicative] Completely overcome or helpless, especially with distress or exhaustion: his wife was prostrate with shock...

So many women would have been hysterical and prostrate with grief by this stage.

Synonyms

overwhelmed, overcome, overpowered, brought to one's knees, crushed, stunned, dazed;

speechless, helpless, paralysed, laid low, impotent

informal knocked/hit for six

worn out, exhausted, fatigued, tired out, overtired, weary, sapped, dog-tired, spent, drained, played out, debilitated, enervated, low

informal all in, done (in/up), dead, dead beat, dead tired, dead on one's feet, ready to drop, fagged out, bushed, whacked, worn to a frazzle, burnt-out

British informal knackered

North American informal pooped

2 Botany Growing along the ground: mats of prostrate herbs can be used to break up expanses of soil...

In that area, natural Atriplex cover was very low, with only some prostrate plants growing on creek banks.
The duckweeds grow in a prostrate orientation upon the surface of water and rely on the buoyant forces of their environment for support, rather than lignified structures.
P. myriophylla is a woody subshrub that forms patches of prostrate or decumbent stems often rooting at the nodes.

verb /prɒˈstreɪt

/ [with object]

1 (prostrate oneself) Throw oneself flat on the ground so as to be lying face downwards, especially in reverence or submission: she prostrated herself on the bare floor of the church...

Some of the men had prostrated themselves flat on their faces, arms outstretched towards the Goddess.
The natives who came to see them off prostrated themselves on the ground and cried in farewell.
Another (even greater) problem was that she was unwilling to submit to her dictates or prostrate herself in abject submission.

Synonyms

throw oneself flat, throw oneself down, lie down, stretch oneself out, bow low, throw oneself at someone's feet

dated measure one's length

2Reduce (someone) to extreme physical weakness: she was so prostrated by migraine that she could scarcely totter up the stairs to bed...

He never doubted, and gratefully recognized, Mary's own contribution to the device of the joint monarchy, and her death on 27 December 1694 prostrated him for months.
She quickly ran up to him in time to catch him in her arms and with horror heard the wild scream of the spirit that racked and prostrated the unhappy man.
Drenched in sweat, they are prostrated by fatigue, ‘sucking in hot air like bellows and breathless in the suffocating heat’.

Synonyms

overwhelm, overcome, overpower, bring someone to their knees, crush, devastate, make helpless, paralyse, lay low, make powerless, debilitate, incapacitate, weaken, enfeeble, devitalize, enervate, handicap, immobilize, hamstring, make impotent, wear out, exhaust, tire out, fatigue, weary, make weary, drain, sap, wash out, take it out of, tax, overtax, undermine

informal knacker, whack, frazzle, do in, knock out, fag out

North American informal poop

Origin

Middle English: from Latin prostratus 'thrown down', past participle of prosternere, from pro- 'before' + sternere 'lay flat'.

单词	prostrate
释义	prostrate adjective /ˈprɒstreɪt / 1Lying stretched out on the ground with one’s face downwards: there was a man praying before an idol, lying prostrate they surged forward around the prostrate figure on the ground... I don't actually suffer from it in real life, but in dreams I often find myself lying prostrate and petrified on top of a building, afraid to stand up. Sometimes he was on my legs, other times he was stretched out prostrate across my torso. While strolling, I caught sight of a half-naked, deformed figure lying prostrate on the pavement. Synonyms prone, lying flat, lying down, flat, stretched out, spreadeagled, sprawling, horizontal, recumbent, on one's front rare procumbent 1.1 [predicative] Completely overcome or helpless, especially with distress or exhaustion: his wife was prostrate with* shock... So many women would have been hysterical and prostrate with grief by this stage. Synonyms overwhelmed, overcome, overpowered, brought to one's knees, crushed, stunned, dazed; speechless, helpless, paralysed, laid low, impotent informal* knocked/hit for six worn out, exhausted, fatigued, tired out, overtired, weary, sapped, dog-tired, spent, drained, played out, debilitated, enervated, low informal all in, done (in/up), dead, dead beat, dead tired, dead on one's feet, ready to drop, fagged out, bushed, whacked, worn to a frazzle, burnt-out British informal knackered North American informal pooped 2 Botany Growing along the ground: mats of prostrate herbs can be used to break up expanses of soil... In that area, natural Atriplex cover was very low, with only some prostrate plants growing on creek banks. The duckweeds grow in a prostrate orientation upon the surface of water and rely on the buoyant forces of their environment for support, rather than lignified structures. P. myriophylla is a woody subshrub that forms patches of prostrate or decumbent stems often rooting at the nodes. verb /prɒˈstreɪt / [with object] 1 (prostrate oneself) Throw oneself flat on the ground so as to be lying face downwards, especially in reverence or submission: she prostrated herself on the bare floor of the church... Some of the men had prostrated themselves flat on their faces, arms outstretched towards the Goddess. The natives who came to see them off prostrated themselves on the ground and cried in farewell. Another (even greater) problem was that she was unwilling to submit to her dictates or prostrate herself in abject submission. Synonyms throw oneself flat, throw oneself down, lie down, stretch oneself out, bow low, throw oneself at someone's feet dated measure one's length 2Reduce (someone) to extreme physical weakness: she was so prostrated by migraine that she could scarcely totter up the stairs to bed... He never doubted, and gratefully recognized, Mary's own contribution to the device of the joint monarchy, and her death on 27 December 1694 prostrated him for months. She quickly ran up to him in time to catch him in her arms and with horror heard the wild scream of the spirit that racked and prostrated the unhappy man. Drenched in sweat, they are prostrated by fatigue, ‘sucking in hot air like bellows and breathless in the suffocating heat’. Synonyms overwhelm, overcome, overpower, bring someone to their knees, crush, devastate, make helpless, paralyse, lay low, make powerless, debilitate, incapacitate, weaken, enfeeble, devitalize, enervate, handicap, immobilize, hamstring, make impotent, wear out, exhaust, tire out, fatigue, weary, make weary, drain, sap, wash out, take it out of, tax, overtax, undermine informal knacker, whack, frazzle, do in, knock out, fag out North American informal poop Origin Middle English: from Latin prostratus 'thrown down', past participle of prosternere, from pro- 'before' + sternere 'lay flat'. Rhymes abate, ablate, aerate, ait, await, backdate, bait, bate, berate, castrate, collate, conflate, crate, create, cremate, date, deflate, dictate, dilate, distraite, donate, downstate, eight, elate, equate, estate, fate, fête, fixate, freight, frustrate, gait, gate, gestate, gradate, grate, great, gyrate, hate, hydrate, inflate, innate, interrelate, interstate, irate, Kate, Kuwait, lactate, late, locate, lustrate, mandate, mate, migrate, misdate, misstate, mistranslate, mutate, narrate, negate, notate, orate, ornate, Pate, placate, plate, prate, prorate, pulsate, pupate, quadrate, rate, rotate, sate, sedate, serrate, short weight, skate, slate, spate, spectate, spruit, stagnate, state, straight, strait, Tate, tête-à-tête, Thwaite, translate, translocate, transmigrate, truncate, underrate, understate, underweight, update, uprate, upstate, up-to-date, vacate, vibrate, wait, weight
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