prostrate

Meanings

1. Lying flat, face-down.
2. Emotionally devastated.
3. Physically incapacitated from environmental exposure or debilitating disease.
4. Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
5. Prostrated.

1. To lie flat or face-down.
2. To throw oneself down in submission.
3. To cause to lie down, to flatten.
4. To overcome or overpower.

Etymology

From Middle English prostrat(e) (“prostrate”, also used as the past participle of prostraten), borrowed from Latin prōstrātus, perfect passive participle of prōsternō (“to prostrate”). Participial usage up until Early Modern English.