prostration
pro stray shuhn
- 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 .