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prostration 音标拼音: [prɑstr'eʃən] n. 平伏,跪倒,疲劳,虚脱 平伏,跪倒,疲劳,虚脱 prostration n 1: an abrupt failure of function or complete physical exhaustion; " the commander' s prostration demoralized his men" [ synonym: { collapse}, { prostration}] 2: abject submission; the emotional equivalent of prostrating your body 3: the act of assuming a prostrate positionProstration \ Pros* tra" tion\, n. [ L. prostratio: cf. F. prostration.] 1. The act of prostrating, throwing down, or laying fiat; as, the prostration of the body. [ 1913 Webster] 2. The act of falling down, or of bowing in humility or adoration; primarily, the act of falling on the face, but usually applied to kneeling or bowing in reverence and worship. [ 1913 Webster] A greater prostration of reason than of body. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 3. The condition of being prostrate; great depression; lowness; dejection; as, a postration of spirits. " A sudden prostration of strength." -- Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster] 4. ( Med.) A latent, not an exhausted, state of the vital energies; great oppression of natural strength and vigor. [ 1913 Webster] Note: Prostration, in its medical use, is analogous to the state of a spring lying under such a weight that it is incapable of action; while exhaustion is analogous to the state of a spring deprived of its elastic powers. The word, however, is often used to denote any great depression of the vital powers. [ 1913 Webster] 190 Moby Thesaurus words for " prostration": accubation, accumbency, aching heart, adoration, adulation, adynamia, agony, agony of mind, anemia, anguish, apple- polishing, ass- kissing, atony, backscratching, bale, bend, bending the knee, bitterness, blah feeling, bleeding heart, bloodlessness, bob, bootlicking, bouleversement, bow, bowing, bowing and scraping, breakdown, broken heart, brown- nosing, cachexia, cachexy, care, carking care, cave- in, circulatory collapse, co- worship, collapse, convulsion, couchancy, cowardice, crack- up, crackup, cringing, crouch, crushing, cult, cultism, cultus, curtsy, debasement, debilitation, debility, decumbency, deference, deflation, dejection, depression, depth of misery, desolation, despair, desperation, despondency, devotion, dipping the colors, downfall, draining, duck, dulia, dullness, enervation, etiolation, exhaustedness, exhaustion, extremity, faintness, fall, fatigue, fawnery, fawning, feebleness, flabbiness, flaccidity, flunkyism, footlicking, genuflection, grief, groveling, handshaking, heartache, heartfelt grief, heartgrief, heavy heart, homage, humiliation, hyperdulia, idolatry, implosion, impotence, inclination, infelicity, ingratiation, insinuation, kneeling, kowtow, kowtowing, lamentation, languishment, languor, lassitude, latria, listlessness, loll, lounging, lowness, lying, lying down, making a leg, mealymouthedness, melancholia, melancholy, misery, nervous breakdown, nervous exhaustion, nervous prostration, neurasthenia, nod, obeisance, obsequiousness, overthrow, overturn, paralysis, parasitism, pining, presenting arms, proneness, reclination, reclining, recumbency, repose, respect, reverence, sabotage, sadness, salaam, salutation, salute, scrape, servility, shortness, sluggishness, softness, sorrow, sorrowing, sponging, sprawl, squat, squatness, squattiness, standing at attention, stoop, strengthlessness, stumpiness, subjacency, submission, submissiveness, subversion, suicidal despair, supination, supineness, sycophancy, timeserving, toadeating, toadying, toadyism, transcendent wonder, truckling, tufthunting, unhappiness, upheaval, upset, veneration, weakliness, weakness, weariness, woe, woefulness, worship, worshiping, wretchedness
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