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prostrate
Synonyms and Antonyms of prostrate
- prostrate marathoners typically spend the day after the race recovering
all in, aweary [archaic], beat, beaten, bleary, burned-out (or burnt-out), bushed, dead, done, drained, exhausted, fatigued, jaded, knackered [British], limp, logy (also loggy), played out, pooped [slang], spent, tapped out, tired, tuckered (out), washed-out, wearied, weary, wiped out, worn, worn-out
- prostrate with fear as the bombs began dropping
- the suspects lay prostrate on the floor while the police searched the room
Synonym Discussion of prostrate
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- push-ups require a prone position
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- lying supine on the couch
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- a runner fell prostrate at the finish line
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- a patient comfortably recumbent in a hospital bed
prostrate
Synonyms and Antonyms of prostrate
- an athlete prostrated for weeks by a bout of pneumonia
debilitate, devitalize, enervate, enfeeble, etiolate, sap, soften, tire, waste, weaken
- the huge increase in gas prices really prostrated the nation's economic engine
- a widow prostrated by crushing grief
- the boxer bragged that he could prostrate any opponenent with a single blow
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