Prostrate vs Kneel - What's the difference?
prostrate | kneel |
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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(lb) To stoop down and rest on the knee or knees.
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As verbs the difference between prostrate and kneel
is that prostrate is (to lie flat or facedown)(Often reflexive) To lie flat or facedown while kneel is to stoop down and rest on the knee or knees.As an adjective prostrate
is lying flat, facedown.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.
Antonyms
* supineVerb
(prostrat)Usage notes
* Prostrate and (prostate) are often confused, in spelling if not in meaning.See also
* kowtow ----kneel
English
Verb
- When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped?; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, and her pretty little Alsatian maid beside her, laying a log across the andirons.
