OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 28845

prostrate

/ˈpɹɒstɹeɪt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
acostado boca abajo • postrado • prostrado (disused)
Lying flat, face-down.
Finally almost the whole world was combined against the evil-doers, who are now prostrate before us.
Prostrate fall / Before him reverent, and there confess / Humbly our faults.
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📚 verb • entry_id 28846

prostrate

/ˈpɹɒstɹeɪt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
postrarse • prostrarse (disused)
To lie flat or face-down.
postrarse • prostrarse (disused)
To throw oneself down in submission.
But I take the view that the statue is a cheap and cynical stunt by ministers with scant knowledge of history, whose only interest lies in greasing up to modern Indian politicians.…
Those who had the privilege of approaching him, had to prostrate themselves before him in profound humility[…]
postrar • prostrar (disused)
To cause to lie down, to flatten.
How many of these mighty pines were to be prostrated under that approaching tempest!
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