Grovel vs Prostrate - What's the difference?
grovel | prostrate |
To be prone on the ground.
To crawl
To abase oneself before another person.
To be nice to someone or apologize in the hope of securing something.
To take pleasure in mundane activities.
Lying flat, facedown.
* Milton
* 1945 , :
Emotionally devastated.
Physically incapacitated from environmental exposure or debilitating disease.
(botany) Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
(senseid)(Often reflexive) To lie flat or facedown.
To throw oneself down in submission (also figuratively).
To cause to lie down, to flatten; (figuratively) to overcome or overpower.
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As verbs the difference between grovel and prostrate
is that grovel is to be prone on the ground while prostrate is (to lie flat or facedown)(Often reflexive) To lie flat or facedown.As an adjective prostrate is
lying flat, facedown.grovel
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Usage notes
* The spellings grovelling and grovelled are more common in the UK. Groveling and groveled are more common in the US.Anagrams
*prostrate
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Adjective
(-)- Prostrate fall / Before him reverent, and there confess / Humbly our faults.
- Finally almost the whole world was combined against the evil-doers, who are now prostrate before us.
- I told him you was prostrate with grief.'' — Mammy to Scarlett, ''Gone With the Wind .
- He was prostrate from the extreme heat.