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

单词

prostrate

释义

lying full-length face downwards, esp in adoration or submission

extended in a horizontal position; flat

physically or emotionally weak or exhausted; overcome

prostrate with grief

said of a plant: trailing on the ground

[Middle English prostrat from Latin prostratus, past part. of prosternere, from pro-¹ + sternere to spread out, throw down]

to throw or put (esp oneself) into a prostrate position

to put (oneself) in a humble and submissive posture or state

The whole team had to prostrate itself in official apology — Claudia Cassidy

to reduce (somebody) to submission, helplessness, or exhaustion

prostration /-sh(ə)n/ noun

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