Prostrate vs Tired - What's the difference?
prostrate | tired |
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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(tire)
In need of some rest or sleep.
Fed up, annoyed, irritated, sick of.
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As adjectives the difference between prostrate and tired
is that prostrate is lying flat, facedown while tired is in need of some rest or sleep.As verbs the difference between prostrate and tired
is that prostrate is (to lie flat or facedown)(Often reflexive) To lie flat or facedown while tired is past tense of tire.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 ----tired
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en-adj)- I'm tired of this
- a tired song