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• n  an abrupt failure of function or complete physical exhaustion
  the commander's prostration demoralized his men
• n  abject submission; the emotional equivalent of prostrating your body
• n  the act of assuming a prostrate position

• Heat prostration and killer mosquitoes.
• The prostration of a victim of an attack is no pretense.
• Four hundred and fifty million Chinese could imagine nothing more poignant than the reported fainting and prostration of Dictator Chiang Kai-shek's wife as she sat beside a radio .

• collapse

Quotes

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• John Bigelow in Jamaica Gleaner
  Bigelow writes: "It is difficult to exaggerate and yet more difficult to define the poverty and industrial prostration of Jamaica" at that time.
• Bobby Frankel in ESPN
  It was hot that day, and he didn't sweat,Frankel said. "He wasn't right in the paddock. He didn't get warm. It was easy to get heat prostration. He and Tates Creek got heat prostration. Then he got sick after the race. But he's acting real...