Prostrate vs Sarment - What's the difference?
prostrate | sarment |
Lying flat, facedown.
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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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In botany|lang=en terms the difference between prostrate and sarment
is that prostrate is (botany) trailing on the ground; procumbent while sarment is (botany) a prostrate filiform stem or runner, as of the strawberry.As an adjective prostrate
is lying flat, facedown.As a verb prostrate
is (senseid)(often reflexive) to lie flat or facedown.As a noun sarment is
(botany) a prostrate filiform stem or runner, as of the strawberry.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.