PROSTRATE


Meaning of PROSTRATE in English

I. adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

body

He flicked his wrist and sent it cracking high over Luke's prostrate body .

form

Everywhere doctors and nurses were bending over prostrate forms , and shouting orders and instructions.

Over our prostrate forms the bullets are hissing and shells shrieking.

Pulling a torch from this pocket he played the beam across her prostrate form .

Landing over the first fence he crashed into the prostrate form of the faller Meon Valley and was brought down.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

the nation's prostrate economy

They found him lying prostrate on the floor.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Annes has fallen prostrate before the field.

Everywhere doctors and nurses were bending over prostrate forms, and shouting orders and instructions.

He lay prostrate before the Lord as his body was wracked with sobs.

Pulling a torch from this pocket he played the beam across her prostrate form.

The rocking had ceased and most of the congregation were prostrate .

The stem is delicate, seldom branching, prostrate , and rooting as a marsh plant.

Their crews are prostrate in the shade, trying to escape the excruciating, oven heat.

When he left she'd been prostrate upon her bed.

II. verb

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A sudden flurry, as of a dozen Multhrops simultaneously prostrating themselves, and the doors were flung open.

At Artai's back they knelt, and then prostrated themselves.

At this sight Catharine, much troubled, prostrated profoundly and gradually restored the foot of Agnes to its usual position.

He stood by Burun's side, knelt and bowed, then prostrated himself.

I spun around to find that he had prostrated himself on the ground and was clasping my feet.

Outside they prostrate themselves on wooden prayer beds.

They came before the tent and prostrated themselves on the ground before following their chief to prison.

This year, Hollywood mostly prostrated itself, hunkering down until the wind from the right blows over.

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