Prostrate vs Prostriate - What's the difference?
prostrate | prostriate |
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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(entomology) Describing ticks (of the order Ixodida) in which the anal groove of the adult is in front of the anus
As adjectives the difference between prostrate and prostriate
is that prostrate is lying flat, facedown while prostriate is describing ticks (of the order Ixodida) in which the anal groove of the adult is in front of the anus.As a verb prostrate
is (to lie flat or facedown)(Often reflexive) To lie flat or 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.