Prostration is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PROSTRATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of assuming a prostrate position
• the action of lying stretched out on the ground.
• the state of being extremely weak or subservient
• extreme physical weakness or emotional exhaustion.
• The act of prostrating, throwing down, or laying fiat; as, the prostration of the body.
• 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.
• The condition of being prostrate; great depression; lowness; dejection; as, a postration of spirits.
• A latent, not an exhausted, state of the vital energies; great oppression of natural strength and vigor.
• an abrupt failure of function or complete physical exhaustion
• abject submission; the emotional equivalent of prostrating your body
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act of assuming a prostrate position; the state of being in a prostrate position; abasement

Words related to PROSTRATION

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Words that contain PROSTRATION

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How to use PROSTRATION in a sentence

• The fever spent itself at last and there followed long days of utter prostration both of mind and body.
• No doubt the light, buoyant atmosphere keeps them from falling into such a state of mental prostration as to induce suicide.
• She was suffering from nervous prostration and brain fever.
• I am quite certain that but for my nerves the sudden chill would not have done me any harm, but in my present state of nervous prostration I have lost all power of resistance.
• Edmee was carried away to the chateau, and I followed and for several days remained in a state of prostration.
• One day she became so excited that she fell into an extreme prostration and declared that she was dying.
• For an hour or two her prostration was extreme, and she nearly fainted.
• At his entrance on board the ship, he fell on his face in the most humble prostration to the Almighty.
• But in the summer of 1858 he had an alarming attack of bleeding at the lungs, accompanied with a general prostration of strength.
• The effect he seemed to produce was that of a general prostration of body and mind.
• My father profited by this total prostration of all my faculties to demand of me a formal promise to accompany him.
• Then he flung himself on the ground and lay at full length upon his face, with his arms outstretched in an attitude of utter prostration.
• You see another who has outraged every obligation of life, and he is not tried by the deep prostration you think he ought to have, but bright with happiness at once.
• Why, the very names of the people here give me nervous prostration.
• Entire prostration is the aboriginal sign of submission.
• Take, for instance, the matter of modesty, of the balance between mere pride and mere prostration.
• Drink has often rescued men, in straits of mental prostration, from the charcoal-pan, the pistol, and the river.
• It induces excitement, which is followed by prostration.
• The prostration of spirits which accompanies anything like a relapse is almost the most difficult point to manage.
• Wert Payley almost had nervous prostration from overwork that year, and in the end he had to give up.
• Oh, Aunt, not ere you promise on your soul, With a prostration that shall save my life Pleading to go before the sovereign presence.
• During the following four weeks her prostration and decline were steady.
• They dose themselves a good deal, I fancy, for it is a poor family that does not know all about nervous prostration.
• On the Friday that Percy Saville returned to town, Raphael, in a state of mental prostration modified by tobacco, was sitting in the editorial chair.
• Captain Nemo had somewhat rallied from the prostration which had overcome him, and his eyes shone with their wonted fire.
• His pallor was extreme, and his prostration so great that he was hardly able to dress himself.
• Nervous prostration is generally understood to mean weakness of the nerves.
• The result of her walk to the river was a subsequent day of prostration and a nervous headache.
• Peckaby had calmed down from the rampant state to one of prostration.
• The moment sentence had been pronounced, he allowed himself to be helped out of court in a melancholy state of prostration, and the next morning he left for London.
• Our tendency is to alternate periods of extreme activity with intervals of complete prostration for recovery.
• The actual number of French soldiers covered by the capitulation was fully one hundred and seventy thousand! The prostration of France was complete, and her humiliation extreme.

Similar words containing PROSTRA without suffix tion

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