prostrate
verb (used with object)
to cast (oneself ) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.
was prostrating
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past progressiveof prostrate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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This, then, was the canker that was prostrating that noble spirit—the cause of his deep melancholy.
From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Mayne Reid
A game of romps with her four-footed friend would have done something to dissipate the mental sickness which was prostrating May's powers.
From A Houseful of Girls by Sarah Tytler
A minute later this searcher of the heavens, a tall, hook-nosed man, was prostrating himself before Abi in his pavilion on the upper deck, so low that his Syrian-shaped cap fell from his bald head.
From Morning Star by Henry Rider Haggard
Why didst thou break in so hastily and unadvisedly upon the argument with which I was prostrating yonder heretic?
From The Monastery by Sir Walter Scott
