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prostratingverbpresent participle of prostrate to diminish the physical strength ofan athlete prostrated for weeks by a bout of pneumonia debilitating, devitalizing, enervating, enfeebling, etiolating, sapping, softening, tiring, wasting, weakening crippling, disabling, hamstringing, incapacitatingdepleting, depressing, exhausting, impoverishing, unmanning, washing outdamaging, harming, hurting, impairing, injuring, invaliding, laying upbreaking down, grinding (down), wearing down, wearing outparalyzing beefing (up), fortifying, strengthening energizing, invigorating, recruiting, rejuvenating, vitalizinghardening, seasoning, toughening to render powerless, ineffective, or unable to movethe huge increase in gas prices really prostrated the nation's economic engine crippling, disabling, hamstringing, immobilizing, incapacitating, paralyzing attenuating, debilitating, enervating, enfeebling, sapping, tiring, undercutting, undermining, weakeninghobbling, lamingmaiming, mutilatingknocking out energizing, galvanizing, invigorating, vitalizingfortifying, strengtheningempoweringfreshening, refreshening, refreshing, regenerating, rejuvenating, restoring, revitalizing, reviving to subject to incapacitating emotional or mental stressa widow prostrated by crushing grief crushing, devastating, flooring, grinding (down), oppressing, overcoming, overmastering, overpowering, overwhelming, snowing under, swamping, whelming deluging, drowning, sinkingconfuting, defeating, refutingbreaking, demoralizing, distressing, disturbing, rocking, shattering, staggering, throwing, unmanning, unnerving, upsetting to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fallthe boxer bragged that he could prostrate any opponenent with a single blow bowling (down or over), downing, dropping, felling, flooring, knocking down, knocking over, leveling(or levelling), mowing (down) kayoing, knocking out, KO'ingoverthrowing, throwing down, topplingbanging, bashing, belting, bludgeoning, clobbering, hammering, hitting, jabbing, pasting, poking, pounding, punching, slamming, slapping, slogging, slugging, smacking, smiting, socking, swatting, swiping, thumping, thwacking, walloping, whacking, whaling |