Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate.

Lying at mercy, as a supplicant.

Lying in a humble, lowly, or suppliant posture.

to overthrow; to demolish; to destroy; to deprive of efficiency; to ruin; as, to prostrate a village; to prostrate a government; to prostrate law or justice.

To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to reduce; as, a person prostrated by fever.

render helpless or defenseless; "They prostrated the enemy"

To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants.

get into a prostrate position, as in submission