prostrating

Verb

prostrate (third-person singular simple present prostrates, present participle prostrating, simple past and past participle prostrated)

1. (often, reflexive) To lie flat or face-down.
2. (also, figuratively) To throw oneself down in submission.
   • Those who had the privilege of approaching him, had to prostrate themselves before him in profound humility[…]1922, Maneckji Nusserwanji Dhalla, Zoroastrian Civilization, page 228

   Synonyms:

   grovel

3. To cause to lie down, to flatten.
   • How many of these mighty pines were to be prostrated under that approaching tempest!1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter XIV, page 175
4. (figuratively) To overcome or overpower.
   • Why this very minute she's prostrated with grief.1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC

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