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lying face downward on the ground as in submission- It is their custom to worship five times a day, prostrate and facing toward Mecca.
prostrate = lying face downward on the ground as in submission
- When she can, she likes to pray in a prostrate position to symbolize her humility.
- And all the region lay prostrate As if in a swoon.Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
- Ralph accordingly went off with the cicerone while Isabel sat down on a prostrate column near the foundations of the Capitol.Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1
- The daughter lay prostrate and motionless; she had swooned.Edgar Allan Poe -- The Murders in the Rue Morgue
- With a motion of his head, he indicated his prostrate helpless frame.Ivan Turgenev -- Fathers and Sons
- "Oh my brother!" she cried with a movement of still deeper prostration.Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
- Prostration complete, the doctor said.Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
- I slept after the prostration of the day, with a stringent and profound slumber which not even the nightmares that wrung me could avail to break.Robert Louis Stevenson -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- But that kind of opportunity seems hardly worth the bowing and scraping and intellectual prostration necessary to maintain it.Robert M. Pirsig -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Several men lift the prostrate BRADY, and stretch him across three chairs.Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee -- Inherit the Wind
- Mae prostrates herself as well.Libba Bray -- Sweet Far Thing
- I rest again at the end of the car, prostrate between the top rails.Sara Gruen -- Water for Elephants
- My Lord, I prostrate myself before you, I am your most faithful —J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- All my tactics lay in simply being utterly annihilated and prostrate before her purity.Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment
- The voice of Labor, despised and outraged; a mighty giant, lying prostrate—mountainous, colossal, but blinded, bound, and ignorant of his strength.Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle
- Winston was not hurt, only prostrated.George Orwell -- 1984
- All he wanted was that I sit beside him as he lay prostrate on his bedpad and gently pat him on the back with a slow, steady rhythm.Chang-rae Lee -- A Gesture Life
- Tom stood over the prostrate man.John Steinbeck -- The Grapes of Wrath
- Coach Warner himself grabbed Tino, who was still standing over Erik's prostrate body.Edward Bloor -- Tangerine
prostrate = lying face downward on the ground as in submission
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)