Definitions
render helpless or defenseless
Word origin
From Middle English prostrat(e) (“prostrate”, also used as the past participle of prostraten), borrowed from Latin prōstrātus, perfect passive participle of prōsternō (“to prostrate”). Participial usage up until Early Modern English.
Used in a sentence
“Prostrate fall / Before him reverent, and there confess / Humbly our faults.”
“Finally almost the whole world was combined against the evil-doers, who are now prostrate before us.”
“He was prostrate from the extreme heat.”
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