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Prostrate vs. Prone — What's the Difference?

Prostrate vs. Prone — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Prostrate and Prone

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Prostrate

Lying stretched out on the ground with one's face downwards
They surged forward around the prostrate figure on the ground
There was a man praying before an idol, lying prostrate

Prone

Likely or liable to suffer from, do, or experience something unpleasant or regrettable
He was written off by many as too injury-prone
Farmed fish are prone to disease

Prostrate

Growing along the ground
Mats of prostrate herbs can be used to break up expanses of soil

Prone

Lying flat, especially face downwards
A prone position
I was lying prone on a foam mattress

Prostrate

Throw oneself flat on the ground so as to be lying face downwards, especially in reverence or submission
She prostrated herself on the bare floor of the church
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Prone

Lying with the front or face downward.

Prostrate

Reduce (someone) to extreme physical weakness
She was so prostrated by migraine that she could scarcely totter up the stairs to bed

Prone

Having a tendency; inclined. Often used in combination
Paper that is prone to yellowing.
An accident-prone child.

Prostrate

To put or throw flat with the face down, as in submission or adoration
"He did not simply sit and meditate, he also knelt down, sometimes even prostrated himself" (Iris Murdoch).

Prone

In a prone manner
The patient was lying prone on the bed.

Prostrate

To cause to lie flat
The wind prostrated the young trees.

Prone

Lying face downward.
Prone position

Prostrate

To reduce to extreme weakness or incapacitation; overcome
An illness that prostrated an entire family.
A nation that was prostrated by years of civil war.

Prone

Of the hand, forearm or foot: turned facing away from the body; with the thumb inward or big toe downward.
The hand is in the prone position typically when using a keyboard; and the forearm is then also in the prone position; when the foot is resting on the inner side of the sole, it is in the prone position.

Prostrate

Lying face down, as in submission or adoration.

Prone

Having a downward inclination or slope.

Prostrate

Lying flat or at full length.

Prone

(figuratively) Predisposed, liable, inclined.
Prone to failure

Prostrate

Reduced to extreme weakness or incapacitation; overcome.

Prone

(medicine) To place in a prone position, to place face down.

Prostrate

(Botany) Growing flat along the ground.

Prone

Bending forward; inclined; not erect.
Towards him they bendWith awful reverence prone.

Prostrate

Lying flat, face-down.

Prone

Prostrate; flat; esp., lying with the face down; - opposed to supine.
Which, as the wind,Blew where it listed, laying all things prone.

Prostrate

(figuratively) Emotionally devastated.

Prone

Headlong; running downward or headlong.

Prostrate

Physically incapacitated from environmental exposure or debilitating disease.
He was prostrate from the extreme heat.

Prone

Sloping, with reference to a line or surface; declivous; inclined; not level.
Since the floods demand,For their descent, a prone and sinking land.

Prostrate

(botany) Trailing on the ground; procumbent.

Prone

Inclined; propense; disposed; - applied to the mind or affections, usually in an ill sense. Followed by to.
Poets are nearly all prone to melancholy.

Prostrate

To lie flat or face-down.

Prone

Lying face downward

Prostrate

To throw oneself down in submission.

Prone

Having a tendency (to); often used in combination;
A child prone to mischief
Failure-prone

Prostrate

To cause to lie down, to flatten.

Prostrate

(figuratively) To overcome or overpower.

Prostrate

Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate.
Groveling and prostrate on yon lake of fire.

Prostrate

Lying at mercy, as a supplicant.

Prostrate

Lying in a humble, lowly, or suppliant posture.
Prostrate fallBefore him reverent, and there confessHumbly our faults.

Prostrate

Trailing on the ground; procumbent.

Prostrate

To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants.

Prostrate

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.

Prostrate

To throw down, or cause to fall in humility or adoration; to cause to bow in humble reverence; used reflexively; as, he prostrated himself.

Prostrate

To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to reduce; as, a person prostrated by fever.

Prostrate

Get into a prostrate position, as in submission

Prostrate

Render helpless or defenseless;
They prostrated the enemy

Prostrate

Throw down flat, as on the ground;
She prostrated herself with frustration

Prostrate

Stretched out and lying at full length along the ground;
Found himself lying flat on the floor

Prostrate

Lying face downward

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