prostrate

  1. Adjective.  Lying flat, facedown.
  2. Adjective.  Emotionally devastated.
  3. Adjective.  Physically incapacitated from environmental exposure or debilitating disease.
  4. Verb.  (Often reflexive) To lie flat or facedown; to throw oneself down in submission (also figuratively).
  5. Verb.  To cause to lie down, to flatten; (figuratively) to overcome or overpower.

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