Prostrate vs Subvert - What's the difference?
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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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To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.
* Shakespeare
* John Locke
To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound.
To upturn convention from the foundation by undermining it (literally, to turn from beneath).
Prostrate is a related term of subvert.
As verbs the difference between prostrate and subvert
is that prostrate is (senseid)(often reflexive) to lie flat or facedown while subvert is to overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.As an adjective prostrate
is lying flat, facedown.As a noun subvert is
an advertisement created by subvertising.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 ----subvert
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) subverten, from (etyl) subvertir, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- He razeth your cities, and subverts your towns.
- This would subvert the principles of all knowledge.
- A dictator stays in power only as long as he manages to subvert the will of his people.