Usually means: Lying flat, face downward position.
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  1. prostrate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. prostrate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. prostrate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. prostrate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. prostrate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Prostrate, prostrate: Wordnik
  7. prostrate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. prostrate: Wiktionary
  9. prostrate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. prostrate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. prostrate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. prostrate: Dictionary.com
  13. prostrate (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. prostrate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Prostrate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Prostrate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. prostrate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. prostrate: Rhymezone
  19. Prostrate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. prostrate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. prostrate: Free Dictionary
  22. prostrate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. prostrate: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. prostrate: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. prostrate: Legal dictionary

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  1. prostrate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. prostrate: Sound Alike Words
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. prostrate: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prostrate: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
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  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prostrate: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Lying flat, face-down.
adjective:  (figuratively) Emotionally devastated.
adjective:  Physically incapacitated from environmental exposure or debilitating disease.
adjective:  (botany) Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
verb:  (often reflexive) To lie flat or face-down.
verb:  (also figurative) To throw oneself down in submission.
verb:  To cause to lie down, to flatten.
verb:  (figuratively) To overcome or overpower.

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