Usually means: Lying face down in submission.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. prostrating: Merriam-Webster
  2. prostrating: Collins English Dictionary
  3. prostrating: Vocabulary.com
  4. Prostrating, prostrating: Wordnik
  5. prostrating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. prostrating: Wiktionary
  7. Prostrating, prostrating: Dictionary.com
  8. Prostrating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Prostrating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. prostrating: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. prostrating: FreeDictionary.org
  12. prostrating: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prostrating: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prostrating: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prostrating: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (prostrate)

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