I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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body
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He flicked his wrist and sent it cracking high over Luke's prostrate body .
form
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Everywhere doctors and nurses were bending over prostrate forms , and shouting orders and instructions.
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Over our prostrate forms the bullets are hissing and shells shrieking.
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Pulling a torch from this pocket he played the beam across her prostrate form .
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Landing over the first fence he crashed into the prostrate form of the faller Meon Valley and was brought down.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the nation's prostrate economy
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They found him lying prostrate on the floor.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Annes has fallen prostrate before the field.
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Everywhere doctors and nurses were bending over prostrate forms, and shouting orders and instructions.
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He lay prostrate before the Lord as his body was wracked with sobs.
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Pulling a torch from this pocket he played the beam across her prostrate form.
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The rocking had ceased and most of the congregation were prostrate .
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The stem is delicate, seldom branching, prostrate , and rooting as a marsh plant.
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Their crews are prostrate in the shade, trying to escape the excruciating, oven heat.
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When he left she'd been prostrate upon her bed.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A sudden flurry, as of a dozen Multhrops simultaneously prostrating themselves, and the doors were flung open.
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At Artai's back they knelt, and then prostrated themselves.
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At this sight Catharine, much troubled, prostrated profoundly and gradually restored the foot of Agnes to its usual position.
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He stood by Burun's side, knelt and bowed, then prostrated himself.
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I spun around to find that he had prostrated himself on the ground and was clasping my feet.
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Outside they prostrate themselves on wooden prayer beds.
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They came before the tent and prostrated themselves on the ground before following their chief to prison.
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This year, Hollywood mostly prostrated itself, hunkering down until the wind from the right blows over.