prostrated's Usage Examples:

For a time Miss Nightingale was herself prostrated with fever, but she refused to leave her post, and remained at Scutari till Turkey was evacuated by the British in July 1856.

coast were ruined and the banana industry prostrated; and in 1906 Havana suffered damage.

Watts, who was almost prostrated with grief, while her son rushed for assistance.

He had spoken in the House of Commons on the 13th of February, but since then had been prostrated and unable to transact business, his illness dating really from a serious heart attack in the night of the 13th of November at Bristol, after a speech at the Colston banquet.

The faithful prostrated themselves before an adorned but empty chair, which was raised upon a podium of five steps.

Soon after the expedition started he was prostrated by rheumatic gout, and the actual command devolved upon General Richard Montgomery.

France, prostrated by the results of the English raids, by Bag!of Aleppo, he was prostrated by fever, and finally died at Aleppo on the 19th of August.

In the Zapotec district the Wiyatao or high-priest of Zopaa was a divine ruler before whom all prostrated themselves with faces to the ground; he was even too sacred to allow his foot to touch the earth, and was only seen carried in a litter.

Proposing to seek his fortune abroad, he went on foot to Nantes, but was there prostrated by an illness so severe that all thoughts of emigration were perforce abandoned.

After five months' voyage the ship reached Mozambique, where the captain resolved to winter, and Xavier was prostrated with a severe attack of fever.

Synonyms:

flat, unerect,

Antonyms:

decrease, stiffen, erect,