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 position Prostration \
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 .
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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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