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Prone vs Grone - What's the difference?

prone | grone |

As verbs the difference between prone and grone

is that prone is while grone is .

prone

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Lying face downward; prostrate.(w)
  • *
  • *:But they had already discovered that he could be bullied, and they had it their own way; and presently Selwyn lay prone upon the nursery floor, impersonating a ladrone while pleasant shivers chased themselves over Drina, whom he was stalking.
  • Having a downward inclination or slope.
  • Shooting from a lying down position.
  • Predisposed, liable, inclined.

    • Derived terms

    * prone to

    Anagrams

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    grone

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1590, author=, title=Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, chapter=, edition=1921 ed. citation
    • , passage=Dead is Sansfoy, his vitall paines are past, Though greeved ghost for vengeance deepe do grone : He lives, that shall him pay his dewties last,[*] 440 And guiltie Elfin blood shall sacrifice in hast. }}