Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface. Groveling and prostrate on yon lake of fire.

Lying at mercy, as a supplicant.

Lying in the posture of humility of adoration.

To lay flat; to throw down; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants.

To throw down; to overthrow; to demolish; to ruin; as, to prostrate a village; to prostrate a government; to prostrate law or justice; to prostrate the honor of a nation.

To prostrate one’s self, to throw one’s self down or to fall in humility or adoration.

To bow in humble reverence.

To sink totally; to reduce; as, to prostrate strength.