prone vs supine :

prone or supine

“Prone” (face down) is often confused with “supine” (face up). Some people use the phrase “soup in navel” to help them remember the meaning of the latter word. “Prostrate” technically also means “face down,” but is often usedto mean simply “devastated.”See also “.”

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Definitions
  prone
  • s  having a tendency (to); often used in combination
    a child prone to mischief
    failure-prone
  • s  lying face downward
  supine
  • s  lying face upward
  • s  offering no resistance
    No other colony showed such supine, selfish helplessness in allowing her own border citizens to be mercilessly harried"- Theodore Roosevelt
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