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Prostrate vs Liedown - What's the difference?

prostrate | liedown |

As an adjective prostrate

is lying flat, facedown.

As a verb prostrate

is (senseid)(often reflexive) to lie flat or facedown.

As a noun liedown is

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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.
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  • Usage notes

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

    See also

    * kowtow ----

    liedown

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)