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  • Men in uniform were hugging each other, laughing, shouting; others were weeping; some knelt or lay prostrate, and Ender knew they were caught up in prayer.  (source)
    prostrate = lying face downward on the ground
  • My Lord, I prostrate myself before you, I am your most faithful —†  (source)
  • "Thank God," said Boris fervently, falling to the concrete to prostrate himself before the Lord.†  (source)
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  • Coach Warner himself grabbed Tino, who was still standing over Erik's prostrate body.†  (source)
  • In general the most remarkable circumstance of his present state is the total prostration of his physical powers, leaving his mental faculties scarcely impaired at all.†  (source)
    standard suffix: 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.
  • In some, the women were prostrated as if-God forbid this thought-in sujda for prayer.†  (source)
  • I wrote the character, which can mean bending over, kowtowing, or prostrating oneself.†  (source)
  • Mae prostrates herself as well.†  (source)
  • I found the religious prostrations of my saber-rattling born-again neighbors tedious.†  (source)
  • Security warden Claude Grouard simmered with rage as he stood over his prostrate captive in front of the Mona Lisa.†  (source)
  • But that kind of opportunity seems hardly worth the bowing and scraping and intellectual prostration necessary to maintain it.†  (source)
  • We walked to within three meters of the Lord of the Radch, and Seivarden knelt, and then prostrated herself.†  (source)
  • When caught with his bride's own sister he protested—but I was only prostrating myself to her as becomes a grateful in-law.†  (source)
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