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prostrate

2 verb
     
pro‧strate2
1

prostrate yourself

to lie on your front with your face towards the ground, especially as an act of religious worship or as a sign of your willingness to obey someone
2 [transitive usually passive] to make someone too shocked, upset, or weak to be able to do anything
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