prostrare

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to prostrate, to knock down
  2. (figuratively, transitive) to weaken, to exhaust
  3. (figuratively, transitive) to humiliate, to demean

Hyphenated as
pro‧strà‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/prosˈtra.re/
Etymology

Back-formation from the past participle form prostrato, from Latin prostrātus, past participle form of prōsternō.

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