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| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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