lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate.-lying at mercy, as a supplicant.-lying in a humble, lowly, or suppliant posture.-trailing on the ground; procumbent.-to lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants.-to overthrow; to demolish; to destroy; to deprive of efficiency; to ruin; as, to prostrate a village; to prostrate a government; to prostrate law or justice.-to throw down, or cause to fall in humility or adoration; to cause to bow in humble reverence; used reflexively; as, he prostrated himself.-to cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to reduce; as, a person prostrated by fever.