Synonyms:
prostration
Meaning: the act of assuming a prostrate position
Synonyms:
prostration
Meaning: abject submission; the emotional equivalent of prostrating your body
Synonyms:
collapse, prostration
Meaning: an abrupt failure of function or complete physical exhaustion; "the commander's prostration demoralized his men"
Usage examples
Great prostration, diarrhoea, with bloody stools.
A sudden light dawned meantime on the old merchant; he understood the Countess's joy and her prostration.
"The symptoms are intense fever, prostration, vomiting, diarrhoea, sneezing, cough, and profuse discharge from the nose and eyes.
And then he swooned away, and was found unconscious in his bed the next morning by his host, simply saturated with sea-water and fright, from the combined effects of which he never recovered, dying four years later of pneumonia and nervous prostration at the age of seventy-eight.
I sometimes wonder, Doctor, that you gentlemen, who have the public health more or less in your hands, don't take the initiative and stave off nervous prostration and other ills attendant upon a run-down physical condition instead of waiting for a fully developed case and trying to cure it after the fact.