Antonyms for prostrate
| Grammar : Adj, verb |
| Spell : pros-treyt |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈprɒs treɪt |
- activate
- aid
- allow
- assist
- assuage
- build
- cheerful
- construct
- create
- enable
- encourage
- encouraged
- energize
- erect
- fight
- give in
- grow
- hale
- happy
- healthy
- help
- improve
- increase
- invigorate
- lively
- mobilize
- please
- raise
- refresh
- repair
- saved
- self-sufficient
- soothe
- stand
- straight
- straighten
- strengthen
- strong
- successful
- surrender
- upright
- vertical
- yield
Definition of prostrate
Origin :- mid-14c., "lying face-down" (in submission, worship, etc.), from Latin prostratus, past participle of prosternere "strew in front, throw down," from pro- "forth" (see pro-) + sternere "to spread out," from PIE root *stere- "to spread, extend, stretch out" (see structure (n.)). Figurative use from 1590s. General sense of "laid out, knocked flat" is from 1670s.
- adj flat, horizontal
- adj helpless
- adj tired, worn
- verb fall on knees; submit
- verb overwhelm; wear out
- Prostrate before Emmanuel's throne, they repeated their confession.
- Extract from : « Bunyan » by James Anthony Froude
- They have said: "Prostrate yourselves, these gods are just."
- Extract from : « Woman on Her Own, False Gods & The Red Robe » by Eugne Brieux
- Prostrate trunks, yards in diameter and half-decayed, lie along the ground.
- Extract from : « The Scalp Hunters » by Mayne Reid
- Prostrate forms, both of man and horse, were lying upon the plain.
- Extract from : « The War Trail » by Mayne Reid
- Procumbent or Prostrate, lying flat on the ground from the first.
- Extract from : « The Elements of Botany » by Asa Gray
- Prostrate before the King, he seemingly lived but for his smile.
- Extract from : « Told on the Pagoda » by Mimosa
- Prostrate between two rocks lying across the path, her wild flight came to an end.
- Extract from : « The Gilded Man » by Clifford Smyth
- Prostrate yourselves, then, before the Most High, and secure his favor by the practice of every virtue.
- Extract from : « The Empire of Russia » by John S. C. Abbott
- Prostrate she fell on the floor; but hearing a waiter say, 'Up stairs, madam, you may have a room to yourself.'
- Extract from : « Camilla » by Fanny Burney
- Prostrate herbs, with whorled leaves and small whitish axillary flowers without petals, in summer.
- Extract from : « The Plants of Michigan » by Henry Allan Gleason
Synonyms for prostrate
- abase
- abject
- beaten
- bow
- bow down
- bowed low
- bring low
- cast before
- cringe
- cripple
- crippled
- debilitate
- defeat
- defenseless
- dejected
- depressed
- destroy
- disable
- disarm
- disarmed
- drain
- drained
- drown
- drowned
- exhaust
- exhausted
- fagged
- fall at feet
- fallen
- fatigue
- fell
- floor
- frazzle
- frazzled
- give in
- grovel
- immobilize
- immobilized
- impair
- impotent
- incapacitate
- incapacitated
- inconsolable
- kneel
- knock over
- knocked over
- kowtow
- level
- mow
- obedient
- obey
- open
- overcome
- overpower
- overpowered
- overthrow
- overtire
- overturn
- overwhelmed
- paralyze
- paralyzed
- pooped
- powerless
- procumbent
- prone
- reclining
- recumbent
- reduce
- reduced
- ruin
- sap
- spent
- submissive
- subservient
- supine
- surrender
- tire
- tucker out
- tuckered
- weak
- wearied
- weary
- whelm
- worn out
- wreck
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