Synonyms of the word prostrate


PROSTRATEALTER - CHANGE - FLAT - LIE - MODIFY - PRONE - THROW

prostrate

  • adj. Lying flat, facedown.
  • adj. Emotionally devastated.
  • adj. Physically incapacitated from environmental exposure or debilitating disease.
  • adj. (botany) Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
  • v. (often reflexive) To lie flat or facedown.
  • v. To throw oneself down in submission (also figurative).
  • v. To cause to lie down, to flatten; (figuratively) to overcome or overpower.

alter

  • v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
  • v. (intransitive) To become different.
  • v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
  • v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

change

  • v. (intransitive) To become something different.
  • v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
  • v. (transitive) To replace.
  • v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
  • v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
  • v. (archaic) To exchange.
  • v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
  • n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
  • n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
  • n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
  • n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
  • n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
  • n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
  • n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
  • n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
  • n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
  • n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

flat

  • adj. Having no variations in height.
  • adj. (music, voice) Without variations in pitch.
  • adj. (slang) Describing certain features, usually the breasts and/or buttocks, that are extremely small or…
  • adj. (music, note) Lowered by one semitone.
  • adj. (music) Of a note or voice, lower in pitch than it should be.
  • adj. (of a tire or other inflated object) Deflated, especially because of a puncture.
  • adj. Uninteresting.
  • adj. Of a carbonated drink, with all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the…
  • adj. (wine) Lacking acidity without being sweet.
  • adj. (of a battery) Unable to emit power; dead.
  • adj. (juggling, of a throw) Without spin; spinless.
  • adj. Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull.
  • adj. Absolute; downright; peremptory.
  • adj. (phonetics, dated, of a consonant) sonant; vocal, as distinguished from a sharp (non-sonant) consonant.
  • adj. (grammar) Not having an inflectional ending or sign, such as a noun used as an adjective, or an adjective…
  • adj. (golf, of a golf club) Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft.
  • adj. (horticulture, of certain fruits) Flattening at the ends.
  • adv. So as to be flat.
  • adv. Bluntly.
  • adv. (with units of time, distance, etc) Not exceeding.
  • adv. Completely.
  • adv. Directly; flatly.
  • adv. (finance, slang) Without allowance for accrued interest.
  • n. An area of level ground.
  • n. (music) A note played a semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ sign placed after the letter…
  • n. (informal, automotive) A flat tyre/tire.
  • n. (in the plural) A type of ladies' shoes with very low heels.
  • n. (painting) A thin, broad brush used in oil and watercolor/watercolour painting.
  • n. The flat part of something.
  • n. A wide, shallow container.
  • n. (mail) A large mail piece measuring at least 8 1/2 by 11 inches, such as catalogs, magazines, and unfolded…
  • n. (geometry) A subset of n-dimensional space that is congruent to a Euclidean space of lower dimension.
  • n. A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
  • n. A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
  • n. (US) A railroad car without a roof, and whose body is a platform without sides; a platform car or flatcar.
  • n. A platform on a wheel, upon which emblematic designs etc. are carried in processions.
  • n. (mining) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a…
  • n. (obsolete) A dull fellow; a simpleton.
  • n. (technical, theatre) A rectangular wooden structure covered with masonite, lauan, or muslin that depicts…
  • v. (poker slang) To make a flat call; to call without raising.
  • v. (intransitive) To become flat or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
  • v. (intransitive, music, colloquial) To fall from the pitch.
  • v. (transitive, music) To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
  • v. (transitive, dated) To make flat; to flatten; to level.
  • v. (transitive, dated) To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.
  • n. (chiefly Britain, New England, New Zealand and Australia, archaic elsewhere) An apartment, usually on…

lie

  • v. (intransitive) To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
  • v. (intransitive) To be placed or situated.
  • v. To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.
  • v. Used with in: to be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist.
  • v. (archaic) To lodge; to sleep.
  • v. To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
  • v. (law) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.
  • n. (golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.
  • n. (medicine) The position of a fetus in the womb.
  • v. (intransitive) To give false information intentionally with intent to deceive.
  • v. (intransitive) To convey a false image or impression.
  • n. An intentionally false statement; an intentional falsehood.
  • n. A statement intended to deceive, even if literally true; a half-truth.
  • n. Anything that misleads or disappoints.

modify

  • v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
  • v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

prone

  • adj. Lying face downward; prostrate.Wp.
  • adj. Having a downward inclination or slope.
  • adj. Shooting from a lying down position.
  • adj. Predisposed, liable, inclined.

throw

  • v. (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) To twist or turn.
  • v. (transitive) To hurl; to cause an object to move rapidly through the air.
  • v. (transitive) To eject or cause to fall off.
  • v. (transitive) To move to another position or condition; to displace.
  • v. (ceramics) To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.
  • v. (transitive, cricket) Of a bowler, to deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during…
  • v. (transitive, computing) To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal…
  • v. (sports) To intentionally lose a game.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To confuse or mislead.
  • v. (figuratively) To send desperately.
  • v. (transitive) To imprison.
  • v. To organize an event, especially a party.
  • v. To roll (a die or dice).
  • v. (transitive) To cause a certain number on the die or dice to be shown after rolling it.
  • v. (transitive, bridge) To discard.
  • v. (martial arts) To lift the opponent off the ground and bring him back down, especially into a position…
  • v. (transitive) To subject someone to verbally.
  • v. (transitive, said of one's voice) To change in order to give the illusion that the voice is that of someone…
  • v. (transitive) To show sudden emotion, especially anger.
  • v. (transitive) To project or send forth.
  • v. To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
  • v. To twist two or more filaments of (silk, etc.) so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles,…
  • v. (baseball, slang, of a team, a manager, etc.) To select (a pitcher); to assign a pitcher to a given role…
  • n. The flight of a thrown object.
  • n. The act of throwing something.
  • n. One's ability to throw.
  • n. A distance travelled; displacement; as, the throw of the piston.
  • n. A piece of fabric used to cover a bed, sofa or other soft furnishing.
  • n. A single instance, occurrence, venture, or chance.
  • n. Pain, especially pain associated with childbirth; throe.
  • n. (veterinary) The act of giving birth in animals, especially in cows.
  • v. (transitive, said of animals) To give birth to.
  • n. (obsolete) A moment, time, occasion.
  • n. (obsolete) A period of time; a while.
  • n. Misspelling of throe.

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