prostrate
pro strayt
- v get into a prostrate position, as in submission
- v render helpless or defenseless
They prostrated the enemy - v throw down flat, as on the ground
She prostrated herself with frustration - s stretched out and lying at full length along the ground
- s lying face downward
- To the world outside Abu Ghraib prison, he became an iconic figure, a naked, prostrate Iraqi prisoner crawling on the end of a leash held by Private Lynndie England, the pixyish .
- There was perhaps no more unlikely place to look for a Man of 1942 than in prostrate France.
- The Hmong rebels prostrate before me were convinced they would all soon die.