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prostration

pros·tra·tion
P p

Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [pro-strey-shuh n]
    • /prɒˈstreɪ ʃən/
    • /ˈprɒs.treɪt/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [pro-strey-shuh n]
    • /prɒˈstreɪ ʃən/

Definitions of prostration word

  • noun prostration the act of prostrating. 1
  • noun prostration the state of being prostrated. 1
  • noun prostration extreme mental or emotional depression or dejection: nervous prostration. 1
  • noun prostration extreme physical weakness or exhaustion: heat prostration. 1
  • noun prostration lying face down 1
  • noun prostration helplessness, desperation 1
See all 9 definitions of prostration

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Origin of prostration

First appearance:

before 1520
One of the 28% oldest English words
1520-30; < Late Latin prōstrātiōn- (stem of prōstrātiō) a lying prone. See prostrate, -ion

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Parts of speech for Prostration

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Full grammatical hierarchy of Prostration

prostration popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 91% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.

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Synonyms for prostration

noun prostration

  • beatification — a beatifying or being beatified
  • bombshell — A bombshell is a sudden piece of bad or unexpected news.
  • burnout — If someone suffers burnout, they exhaust themselves at an early stage in their life or career because they have achieved too much too quickly.
  • cave in — If something such as a roof or a ceiling caves in, it collapses inwards.
  • cave-in — a collapse, as of anything hollow: the worst cave-in in the history of mining.
All 31 Synonyms of prostration

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  • food poisoning

    an acute gastrointestinal condition characterized by such symptoms as headache, fever, chills, abdominal and muscular pain, nausea, diarrhea, and prostration, caused by foods that are naturally toxic, as poisonous mushrooms, by vegetable foods that are chemically contaminated, as by insecticides, or by bacteria or their toxins, especially of the genus Salmonella.

  • fowl typhoid

    a septicemic disease of fowl, especially chickens, caused by the bacterium Salmonella gallinarum and marked by fever, loss of appetite, thirst, anemic pallor of the skin of the head, and prostration.

  • heat exhaustion

    a condition characterized by faintness, rapid pulse, nausea, profuse sweating, cool skin, and collapse, caused by prolonged exposure to heat accompanied by loss of adequate fluid and salt from the body.

  • influenza

    Pathology. an acute, commonly epidemic disease, occurring in several forms, caused by numerous rapidly mutating viral strains and characterized by respiratory symptoms and general prostration. Compare flu.

  • nervous exhaustion

    extreme mental and physical fatigue caused by excessive emotional stress; neurasthenia.

  • plague

    French La Peste. a novel (1947) by Albert Camus.
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