Thesaurus / prostrate
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Mules pulled ramshackle carts, children played outside mud houses, burqa-shrouded women lay prostrate and begging in the middle of dusty roads.
AFGHANISTAN: WHAT’S AT STAKE?KATE BARTLETTJUNE 1, 2021OZYProstrate she fell on the floor; but hearing a waiter say, 'Up stairs, madam, you may have a room to yourself.'
CAMILLAFANNY BURNEYProstrate or ascending, much branched; leaves round-obovate to rhomboidal, 3–10 long.
THE MANUAL OF THE BOTANY OF THE NORTHERN UNITED STATESASA GRAYProstrate beside him, Sembobitis and Menkera worshipped, their faces touching the stone.
BALTHASARANATOLE FRANCEProstrate under the dread of death, her innermost nature—stripped of the concealments of her later life—was revealed to view.
I SAY NOWILKIE COLLINSProstrate by his side lay the prince, in a state of insensibility, the blood faintly oozing from a wound in his arm.
HEROINES OF THE CRUSADESC. A. BLOSSProstrate, wounded men were strewed over the ground, but the bear was nowhere to be seen.
THE HUNTERS' FEASTMAYNE REIDProstrate and helpless under the paw of the lion is a monkey with the face of Grady.
THE HISTORY OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY IN CARICATUREARTHUR BARTLETT MAURICEProstrate in utter helplessness, she cast herself upon the Eternal Father's mercy.
THE MEASURE OF A MANAMELIA EDITH HUDDLESTON BARRProstrate bodies in olive drab hid the patch of tender green grass by the roadside.
THREE SOLDIERSJOHN DOS PASSOSWORDS RELATED TO PROSTRATE
- annoy
- bore
- burn out
- bush
- collapse
- crawl
- debilitate
- deject
- depress
- disgust
- dishearten
- dispirit
- displease
- distress
- drain
- droop
- drop
- enervate
- ennui
- exasperate
- fag
- fail
- faint
- fatigue
- flag
- fold
- give out
- go stale
- grow weary
- harass
- irk
- irritate
- jade
- nauseate
- overburden
- overstrain
- overtax
- overwork
- pain
- pall
- peter out
- poop out
- prostrate
- put to sleep
- sap
- sicken
- sink
- strain
- tax
- vex
- weaken
- wear
- wear down
- wear out
- wilt
- worry
- yawn
- anemic
- debilitated
- decrepit
- delicate
- effete
- enervated
- epicene
- exhausted
- faint
- feeble
- flaccid
- flimsy
- forceless
- fragile
- frail
- hesitant
- impuissant
- infirm
- insubstantial
- irresolute
- lackadaisical
- languid
- languorous
- limp
- makeshift
- out of gas
- powerless
- prostrate
- puny
- rickety
- rocky
- rotten
- senile
- shaky
- sickly
- sluggish
- spent
- spindly
- supine
- tender
- torpid
- uncertain
- undependable
- unsound
- unsteady
- unsubstantial
- wasted
- wavering
- weakened
- weakly
- wobbly
- anemic
- debilitated
- decrepit
- delicate
- effete
- enervated
- exhausted
- faint
- feeble
- flaccid
- flimsy
- forceless
- fragile
- frail
- hesitant
- impuissant
- infirm
- insubstantial
- irresolute
- lackadaisical
- languid
- languorous
- limp
- makeshift
- out of gas
- powerless
- prostrate
- puny
- rickety
- rocky
- rotten
- senile
- shaky
- sickly
- sluggish
- spent
- spindly
- supine
- tender
- torpid
- uncertain
- undependable
- unsound
- unsteady
- unsubstantial
- wasted
- wavering
- weakened
- weakly
- wobbly
- anemic
- debilitated
- decrepit
- delicate
- effete
- enervated
- exhausted
- faint
- feeble
- flaccid
- flimsy
- forceless
- fragile
- frail
- hesitant
- impuissant
- infirm
- insubstantial
- irresolute
- lackadaisical
- languid
- languorous
- limp
- makeshift
- out of gas
- powerless
- prostrate
- puny
- rickety
- rocky
- rotten
- senile
- shaky
- sickly
- sluggish
- spent
- spindly
- supine
- tender
- torpid
- uncertain
- undependable
- unsound
- unsteady
- unsubstantial
- wasted
- wavering
- weakened
- weakly
- wobbly
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