Overturn vs Prostrate - What's the difference?
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To turn over, capsize or upset (something)
To overthrow or destroy something
(legal) To reverse a decision; to overrule or rescind
To diminish the significance of a previous defeat by winning; to comeback from.
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, year=2011
, date=April 10
, author=Alistair Magowan
, title=Aston Villa 1 - 0 Newcastle
, work=BBC Sport
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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Overturn is a related term of prostrate.
As verbs the difference between overturn and prostrate
is that overturn is to turn over, capsize or upset (something) while prostrate is (senseid)(often reflexive) to lie flat or facedown.As an adjective prostrate is
lying flat, facedown.overturn
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Verb
(en verb)citation, page= , passage=Villa spent most of the second period probing from wide areas and had a succession of corners but despite their profligacy they will be glad to overturn the 6-0 hammering they suffered at St James' Park in August following former boss Martin O'Neill's departure }}
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*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.