prostrate

v

1.(all of oneself) fall at [s.o.'s] feet, throw or cast oneself at [s.o.'s] feet; bow before, bow down to, bend the knee to, fall on one's knees before; kowtow, bow and scrape, truckle, grovel, crouch, crawl, snivel; eat crow, eat dirt, Sl. lick or bite the dust.

2. overthrow, overcome, overwhelm, overpower, overmaster; reduce, disarm, paralyze; cast or throw down, knock down, bowl down or over, floor, Inf. deck; fell, level, flatten, precipitate, drop, bring down, bring low, take down; crush, smash, humble, bring [s.o.] to his knees.

3. jade, fag or fag out, fatigue, weary, tire, tire out, exhaust, wear down or out, Inf. tucker out.

adj

4. supine, resupine, recumbent, accumbent, decumbent, procumbent, prone; laid low, laid out, stretched out, couchant; flat, flat on one's back.

5. overcome, overwhelmed, overpowered, overmastered, overthrown; smashed, crushed, flattened, humbled, brought to one's knees; reduced, disarmed, paralyzed; impotent, helpless, defenseless, powerless; out of action, out of the fight, off the field, Fr. hors de combat; laid up, bedridden, sick abed.

6. exhausted, jaded, fagged or fagged out, drained, spent, worn out, played out; tired, dog-tired, dead-tired, dead on one's feet, more dead than alive, tired to death; Both Inf. done in, tuckered out; All Sl. bushed, whipped, beat, all in, wiped out, pooped, pooped out, too pooped to pop.

7. deferential, obeisant, submissive, compliant, obedient; passive, resigned, accepting, nonresisting; humble, meek, abject; subservient, servile, obsequious; groveling, crawling, kowtowing, cringing, cowering, sniveling.

8. disconsolate, inconsolable, desolate, forlorn, in despair, in the depths or bowels of despair; heartbroken, broken-hearted, heartsick, sick at heart, Sl. cut up, Sl. torn up.