prostrate
verb (used with object)
to cast (oneself ) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.
prostrates
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present tense formof prostrate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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In her 1910 autobiography, she wrote of the Santa Ana wind that “its breath dries up the plants, gives headaches to people, and prostrates them … it uproots trees, tears off roofs, and devastates fields.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2021
I quite like this tableau, the mystic bard shuffling sadly on to a plane, foregoing his ancient principle of opposing a supertax, as his agent prostrates himself on the ground for his lost 700 grand.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 9, 2020
Fazal’s Karim smiles a lot, seems absolutely enchanted by English weather and, at their second meeting, without provocation, prostrates himself to kiss Victoria’s feet.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 25, 2017
The other prostrates himself, back bent, head lowered, with his right arm outstretched over clusters of bananas and other produce offered as homage to the allegorical queen.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 24, 2016
Woman may well wonder at the charm which prostrates the heavy Guardsman at the feet of the belle of the season.
From Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by Lucia Gilbert Calhoun
