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prostrate - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: prostrate
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: flat, horizontal
Synonyms: abject, prone, reclining, recumbent, supine, bowed low, procumbent
Notes: prone is lying on your face (facing downwards) - which is also true for prostrate, but only in expressing adoration or begging for protection; supine is lying on your back
prostate is the gland; prostrate means 'lying face down'
supine is lying face upward, prone and prostrate are lying face downward - and prostrate suggests throwing oneself down, while recumbent is lying flat in any position
Antonyms: erect, straight, upright, vertical
Main Entry: prostrate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: fall on knees; submit
Synonyms: abase, bow, cringe, give in, grovel, kneel, kowtow*, obey, surrender, bow down, cast before, fall at feet
Antonyms: erect, stand, straighten
Main Entry: prostrate
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: helpless
Synonyms: beaten, defenseless, impotent, open, overcome, overwhelmed, paralyzed, powerless, reduced, weak, disarmed, overpowered
Antonyms: happy, self-sufficient, strong, successful
Main Entry: prostrate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: overwhelm; wear out
Synonyms: cripple, debilitate, defeat, destroy, disable, disarm, drain, drown, exhaust, fatigue, fell, floor, frazzle*, impair, incapacitate, level, mow*, overcome, overpower, overthrow, overturn, paralyze, reduce, ruin, sap, tire, weary, wreck, bring low, immobilize, knock over, overtire, tucker out, whelm
Antonyms: aid, assist, assuage, help, please, soothe
Main Entry: prostrate
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: tired, worn
Synonyms: crippled, dejected, depressed, drained, drowned, exhausted, fallen, incapacitated, inconsolable, obedient, overcome, paralyzed, pooped*, spent*, submissive, subservient, worn out, disarmed, fagged, frazzled, immobilized, knocked over, tuckered, wearied
Antonyms: hale, healthy, strong
Main Entry: bedridden
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: sick in bed
Synonyms: ailing, disabled, flat on one's back, ill, incapacitated, infirm, invalid, laid up, prostrate
Main Entry: bring down
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: reduce or hurt
Synonyms: abase, cut down, damage, drop, fell, floor, injure, level, lower, murder*, overthrow, overturn, prostrate, pull down, slay*, tumble, undermine, upset, wound, KO, knock down, lay low, mow down, shoot down, throw down
Antonyms: aid, encourage, help, raise
Main Entry: debilitate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: incapacitate
Synonyms: attenuate, blunt, cripple, devitalize, disable, enervate, enfeeble, eviscerate, exhaust, extenuate, harm, hurt, injure, mar, prostrate, relax, sap, spoil, undermine, weaken, wear out, unbrace, unstrengthen
Antonyms: aid, assist, cure, energize, help, invigorate, mend, strengthen
Main Entry: disable
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: render inoperative; cripple
Synonyms: attenuate, batter, blunt, damage, debilitate, disarm, disqualify, enervate, enfeeble, exhaust, hamstring*, handicap, harm, hock*, hurt, impair, incapacitate, invalidate, kibosh*, knock out*, maim, mangle, mar, mutilate, muzzle, paralyze, prostrate, ruin, sabotage, sap, shatter, spoil, total*, undermine, unfit, weaken, wreck, disenable, hogtie*, immobilize, pinion, put out of action, render incapable, shoot down*, take out*, throw monkey wrench in, unbrace, unstrengthen
Antonyms: aid, assist, enable, help, improve
Main Entry: drown
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: submerge in liquid; submerge and die
Synonyms: asphyxiate, deluge, dip, douse, drench, engulf, flood, go down, go under, immerse, inundate, obliterate, overcome, overflow, overpower, overwhelm, plunge, prostrate, sink, soak, sop, souse, stifle, suffocate, swamp, wipe out, knock over, whelm
Antonyms: float, rescue, save
Main Entry: enervated
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: exhausted, worn out
Synonyms: debilitated, deteriorated, done in, fatigued, feeble, incapacitated, lackadaisical, languid, languishing, limp, listless, paralyzed, prostrate, run-down, rusty, soft, spent, spiritless, tired, weak, weakened, devitalized, enfeebled, gone to seed, languorous, on the ropes, out of condition, out of gas, out of shape, prostrated, sapped, undermined, unnerved, vitiated, washed out
Antonyms: active, animated, enthusiastic, lively, activated, energized, invigorated, strengthened
Main Entry: fatigue
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: tire, wear out
Synonyms: burn out*, bush*, debilitate, deplete, disable, drain, droop, drop, enervate, exhaust, fizzle, flag, knock out*, languish, peter out*, prostrate, sag, sink, succumb, take, weaken, wear down, weary, bedraggle, conk out*, fag, jade, overtire, poop, poop out*, tucker
Antonyms: energize, refresh, envigorate
Main Entry: fatigued
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: tired
Synonyms: beat*, bedraggled, blasé, bushed*, dead*, done in*, droopy, enervated, exhausted, jaded*, languid, listless, pooped*, prostrate, spent*, wasted*, weary, worn, worn-out, zonked*, all in, burned out, dead-beat, dead-tired, dog-tired, dog-weary, dropping, fagged out, languorous, lassitudinous, out of gas, overtired, played out, ready to drop, tuckered, washed out
Antonyms: alert, keen, lively, vivacious, energized, refreshed
Main Entry: fawning
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: deferential, groveling
Synonyms: abject, compliant, crawling, cringing, flattering, humble, ingratiating, mealy-mouthed, obsequious, prostrate, servile, slavish, spineless, submissive, subservient, sycophant, adulatory, bootlicking, bowing, brownnosing, cowering, kowtowing, parasitic, scraping, sniveling, sycophantic
Antonyms: aloof, cool, disinterested, proud, unfriendly
Main Entry: fell
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: chop down
Synonyms: bowl over*, bring down, cleave, cut, cut down, dash, demolish, down, drop, flatten, floor*, gash, ground, hack, hew, level, mangle, prostrate, pull down, raze, sever, shoot, slash, split, sunder, tumble, blow down, cause to fall, knock down, knock over, lay low*, mow down, rive, shoot down*, strike down, throw down
Antonyms: build, construct, erect, raise
Main Entry: flatten
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: level out
Synonyms: abrade, compress, crush, debase, deflate, depress, fell, floor, flush, grade, ground, iron out, lay, plane, plaster*, prostrate, raze, roll, smash, smooth, squash, straighten, subdue, trample, beat down, even out, knock down, lay low, mow down, spread out
Antonyms: break, elevate, raise, round, make uneven
Main Entry: floor
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: perplex, confound
Synonyms: baffle, beat, bewilder, bowl over*, bring down*, conquer, defeat, discomfit, disconcert, down, drop, dumbfound, fell, flatten, ground, level, nonplus, overthrow, prostrate, puzzle, stump, throw, bring up short, knock down, lay low*
Antonyms: clear up, explain
Main Entry: frazzle
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: wear out
Synonyms: exhaust, fray, knock out, prostrate, rip, shred, tear, tire, wear, poop, tucker*
Antonyms: maintain, preserve
Main Entry: grovel
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: abase, demean oneself
Synonyms: apple-polish, beg, beg for mercy, beseech, blandish, bootlick*, bow and scrape, brown-nose, butter up*, cater to, court, cower, crawl, creep, cringe, crouch, eat crow*, eat dirt, eat humble pie, fall all over, fawn*, flatter, humble oneself, humor, implore, kiss one's feet, kneel, kowtow*, make much of, make up to, pamper, play up to, prostrate*, revere, snivel, soft-soap, stoop, suck up to, truckle*, wheedle, yes*
Antonyms: boast
Main Entry: helpless
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: incapable, incompetent; vulnerable
Synonyms: abandoned, debilitated, defenseless, dependent, destitute, disabled, exposed, feeble, forlorn, forsaken, friendless, impotent, inefficient, inexpert, infirm, invalid, over a barrel*, paralyzed, powerless, prostrate, shiftless, unable, unfit, unprotected, weak, basket-case, handcuffed, pinned, tapped, tapped out, up creek without paddle, with hands tied
Antonyms: able, capable, competent, enterprising, independent, resourceful, skilled, strong
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