prostrate
verb (used with object)
to cast (oneself ) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.
have prostrated
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present perfectof prostrate.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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“I am going back to California,” she recalled telling them, “and unless you tell me — let’s face it, I have prostrated myself — now, yes or no, that’s the end of it.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 2022
Had the museum banned him from going back, Mr. Saltz told me, he would have prostrated himself before its executives and begged to be readmitted.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2018
She has served giants, and now sees but a race of dwarfs; princes have prostrated themselves at her altars, where now only beggars kneel.
From Cathedrals of Spain by John A.
A little more, and we would have prostrated ourselves at their feet.
From Six Women and the Invasion by Gabrielle Yerta
A sort of low fever seemed to have prostrated me, and I would have willingly seized so valid a reason for disobeying, at least for that day—for some days, perhaps—the injunction of that ghostly voice.
From A Stable for Nightmares or Weird Tales by Sir Charles L. (Charles Lawrence) Young
