Overpower vs Prostrate - What's the difference?
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To subdue someone by superior force.
To excel or exceed in power; to cause to yield; to subdue.
To render imperceptible by means of greater strength, intensity etc.
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Lying flat, facedown.
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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 overpower and prostrate
is that overpower is to subdue someone by superior force while prostrate is (to lie flat or facedown)(Often reflexive) To lie flat or facedown.As an adjective prostrate is
lying flat, facedown.overpower
English
Verb
(en verb)- We overpowered the opposing army within a couple of hours.
- Bright light overpowers the eyes.
- The dish was OK, but the garlic slightly overpowered the herbs.
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prostrate
English
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.