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Prostrate vs Bethrow - What's the difference?

prostrate | bethrow |

As verbs the difference between prostrate and bethrow

is that prostrate is (to lie flat or facedown)(Often reflexive) To lie flat or facedown while bethrow is to throw; throw about or around; cast; turn over to; cast down; deject; lay prostrate.

As an adjective prostrate

is lying flat, facedown.

prostrate

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Lying flat, facedown.
  • * Milton
    • Prostrate fall / Before him reverent, and there confess / Humbly our faults.
  • * 1945 , :
    • Finally almost the whole world was combined against the evil-doers, who are now prostrate before us.
  • Emotionally devastated.
    • I told him you was prostrate with grief.'' — Mammy to Scarlett, ''Gone With the Wind .
  • Physically incapacitated from environmental exposure or debilitating disease.
    • He was prostrate from the extreme heat.
  • (botany) Trailing on the ground; procumbent.

    • Antonyms

    * supine

    Verb

    (prostrat)
  • (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.
  • *

    • Usage notes

    * Prostrate and (prostate) are often confused, in spelling if not in meaning.

    Related terms

    * prostration

    See also

    * kowtow ----

    bethrow

    English

    Verb

  • To throw; throw about or around; cast; turn over to; cast down; deject; lay prostrate.
  • *2006 , Glenn Belverio, Thomas Onorato, Confessions from the Velvet Ropes :
    • Ehmann, who is known in ntown [sic] New York circles for her sex and fetish parties, bethrowing the Kitsch Inn party because of her soft spot for 'y metal hair bands, and she thought Thomas would be the t person to have at their door.
  • *2009 , Be Tamed and Obidient by DemonPrincess_Rin:
    • Rin a teen girl she's real bad, one day her mother bethrows her to a demon and he takes her away from her friends and now she lives with him!!
  • To throw or twist about; throw off; torture.
  • *2009 , This Is It, Michael Jackson's movie - Lens79 Blog:
    • MJ was a talented musician- there is no denying the obvious. people all around him regarded him with great esteem. how that failed to translate to the average man and women bethrows me.