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UK
/pɹəstɹˈeɪʃən/
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[ US /pɹɑˈstɹeɪʃən/ ]
[ US /pɹɑˈstɹeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- the act of assuming a prostrate position
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an abrupt failure of function or complete physical exhaustion
the commander's prostration demoralized his men - abject submission; the emotional equivalent of prostrating your body
How To Use prostration In A Sentence
- When the King heard this, he bade his son be slain; but on the next day the second Wazir came forward for intercession and kissed ground in prostration. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- Its support for the war and its prostration before Bush are not only a matter of cowardice.
- Asian ginseng may help with conditions like physical exhaustion, nervous prostration or emotional "burnout."
- French parliamentary elections: political right benefits from prostration of the left
- This concession to polytheism greatly pleased the pagans, and when Muhammad reached the last verse of the Sura, they joined in the prostration enjoined there.
- Replacing sajdah (a foreign term) with the euphemistic "prostration" (a limited but acceptable Catholic concept) is a fraudulent attempt to convince well-meaning Catholics that an alien religious practice has disciplinary merit. Archive 2008-05-01
- Then she turned to him bussing and bosoming him and bending calf over calf, and said to him, “Put thy hand between my thighs to the accustomed place; so haply it may stand up to prayer after prostration.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- " Inflation, in its final stages, always ends in prostration, in what modern economists call a ' stabilization crisis. '
- The second kind of prostration is done out of the sincerity of your heart, not with a seeking mind.
- Summing up the unions ' prostration, Mighell complained: " This is a dispute the union most desperately didn't want to be in.