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Prostration   /prɑstrˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Prostration

noun
1.
An abrupt failure of function or complete physical exhaustion.  Synonym: collapse.
2.
Abject submission; the emotional equivalent of prostrating your body.
3.
The act of assuming a prostrate position.



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"Prostration" Quotes from Famous Books



... that patients who took calomel and antimony were found, on post-mortem examinations, to have serious and even fatal inflammation of the stomach and small intestines, attended with great prostration, delirium, and other symptoms of drug poisoning. These "complications" were nothing more or less than drug diseases. And Dr. Ames found, on changing his plan of treatment to milder and simpler remedies, ...
— The Royal Road to Health • Chas. A. Tyrrell

... a good deal of nervous prostration now-a-days but little refining leisure. Shorter days of labor give more spare time and the schools can render a great service to the nation by teaching how to make the best use of this time and by creating the desire to devote a part of it ...
— Children and Their Books • James Hosmer Penniman

... great master of pathos; knows the very tones that go to the heart; can arrest every one of these looks of upbraiding or appeal by which human woe brings the tear into the human eye. The pathos is deep; but it is the majesty not the prostration ...
— Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson • William Wordsworth and Alfred Lord Tennyson

... things," said Hilda, with a sympathetic laugh. She liked Mrs. Moody. "I'll be back directly," she said, and left the good woman standing in an attitude suggestive of mental prostration, actually, literally, gasping at this marvel that had blossomed under her ...
— Youth Challenges • Clarence B Kelland

... "I shall have nervous prostration if I ride in that wagon," she said. "Every minute expecting it to collapse isn't any too good for one who has just been drowned, and whose nerves are ...
— The Meadow-Brook Girls by the Sea - Or The Loss of The Lonesome Bar • Janet Aldridge


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