prostrateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɒstɹeɪt/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɑstɹeɪt/
  • ハイフネーション: pros‧trate

形容詞

prostrate (not comparable)

1. Lying flat, face-down.

   Synonym: prone

   Antonym: supine

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     Prostrate fall / Before him reverent, and there confess / Humbly our faults.

   • 1945, Sir Winston Churchill, VE Day speech from House of Commons:

     Finally almost the whole world was combined against the evil-doers, who are now prostrate before us.

2. (figuratively) Emotionally devastated.
3. Physically incapacitated from environmental exposure or debilitating disease.

   He was prostrate from the extreme heat.

4. (botany) Trailing on the ground; procumbent.

動詞

prostrate (三人称単数 現在形 prostrates, 現在分詞 prostrating, 過去形および過去分詞形 prostrated)

2. (often reflexive) To lie flat or face-down.
3. (also figuratively) To throw oneself down in submission.
   • 1922, Maneckji Nusserwanji Dhalla, Zoroastrian Civilization‎^[1], page 228:

     Those who had the privilege of approaching him, had to prostrate themselves before him in profound humility […]

4. To cause to lie down, to flatten.
   • 1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter XIV, page 175:

     How many of these mighty pines were to be prostrated under that approaching tempest!

5. (figuratively) To overcome or overpower.
   • 1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, OCLC 1049770437; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, OCLC 20350211:

     Why this very minute she's prostrated with grief.

使用する際の注意点

• Prostrate and prostate are often confused, in spelling if not in meaning.

関連する語

• prostration

参考

• kowtow

アナグラム

• Perrottas

Latin

Participle

prōstrāte

1. vocative masculine singular of prōstrātus