prostration
/prɒˈstreɪʃ(ə)n
/noun [mass noun]
1The action of lying stretched out on the ground.The Significance of Devotion Our devotion will grow the more prostrations we do....
- The Purification of Pride First of all, we should know why we do prostrations.
- Someone who dozes in the prayer does not owe a prostration.
Synonyms
collapse, weakness, debility, lassitude, exhaustion, fatigue, tiredness, enervation, emotional exhaustion;
paralysis;
desolation, despair, despondency, dejection, depression, helplessness
1.1The state of being extremely weak or subservient: the refusal to call a strike reflects the union leadership’s prostration before the company...
- Blairs apparent stature can be accounted for by the prostration of his ostensible opponents.
- The prostration of the Democratic Party cleared the way for Reagan's election in 1980.
- The prostration of the Party has been amply demonstrated in the California recall election.
1.2Extreme physical weakness or emotional exhaustion.Unable to match the Indians' enviable capacity for keeping themselves cool, the animals died of heat prostration....
- Doctors found that the panda was affected by lung fever together with functional prostration on some organs.
- When I found him suffering from general debility and nervous prostration.