Vanquish vs Prostrate - What's the difference?
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To defeat, to overcome.
* Clarendon
* Atterbury
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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As verbs the difference between vanquish and prostrate
is that vanquish is to defeat, to overcome while prostrate is (to lie flat or facedown)(Often reflexive) To lie flat or facedown.As an adjective prostrate is
lying flat, facedown.vanquish
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Verb
(es)- They vanquished the rebels in all encounters.
- This bold assertion has been fully vanquished in a late reply to the Bishop of Meaux's treatise.
prostrate
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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.