prostrate

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To put or throw flat with the face down, as in submission or adoration: "He did not simply sit and meditate, he also knelt down, sometimes even prostrated himself” ( Iris Murdoch).
2. v. To cause to lie flat: The wind prostrated the young trees.
3. v. To reduce to extreme weakness or incapacitation; overcome: an illness that prostrated an entire family; a nation that was prostrated by years of civil war.
4. adj. Lying face down, as in submission or adoration.
5. adj. Lying flat or at full length.
6. adj. Reduced to extreme weakness or incapacitation; overcome.
7. adj. Botany Growing flat along the ground.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To lay flat; throw down: as, to prostrate the body.
2. To throw down; overthrow; demolish; ruin: as, to prostrate a government; to prostrate the honor of a nation.
3. To throw (one's self) down, in humility or adoration; bow with the face to the ground: used reflexively.
4. To present submissively; submit in reverence.
5. In medicine, to make to sink totally; reduce extremely; cause to succumb: as, to prostrate a person's strength.
6. Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface.
7. Lying at mercy, as a suppliant or one who is overcome in fight: as, a prostrate foe.
8. Lying or bowed low in the posture of humility or adoration.
9. In botany, lying flat and spreading on the ground without taking root; procumbent.
10. In zoology, closely appressed to the surface; lying flat: as, prostrate hairs. Synonyms Prostrate, Supine, Prone. He who lies prostrate may be either supine (that is, with his face up) or prone (that is, with his face down).

Wiktionary

1. adj. Lying flat, facedown.
2. adj. Emotionally devastated.
3. adj. Physically incapacitated from environmental exposure or debilitating disease.
4. v. To lie flat or facedown.
5. v. To throw oneself down in submission (also figuratively).
6. v. To cause to lie down, to flatten; (figuratively) to overcome or overpower.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out.
2. adj. Lying at mercy, as a supplicant.
3. adj. Lying in a humble, lowly, or suppliant posture.
4. adj. (Bot.) Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
5. v. To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell
6. v. to overthrow; to demolish; to destroy; to deprive of efficiency; to ruin
7. v. To throw down, or cause to fall in humility or adoration; to cause to bow in humble reverence; used reflexively.
8. v. To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to reduce.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. get into a prostrate position, as in submission
2. v. throw down flat, as on the ground
3. adj. lying face downward
4. v. render helpless or defenseless
5. adj. stretched out and lying at full length along the ground