prostrating
Face down, submissive
Prostrating is the act of lying face down on the ground, typically as a gesture of submission, worship, or overwhelming emotion.
Religious contexts feature prostration before altars or sacred objects.
Figuratively, something prostrating leaves you completely overcome or debilitated: The grief was prostrating.
To prostrate oneself before someone is to humble oneself utterly.
Bending forward in deference
- kneelingLowering onto bent legs
- supplicationHumble plea for help
- reverenceProfound admiring respect
- devotionDeep, loyal commitment
veneration · genuflection · adoration · prayer · piety · kowtowing · salaam · obeisance
Bending under pressure
- surrenderingCeasing to resist
- capitulatingCeasing to resist
- grovelingDemeaning self-abasement before another
- humblingDiminishing one's pride
deferring · abasing · kowtowing · submitting · acquiescing · conceding · succumbing · relenting
Falling inward suddenly
- overwhelmingIntensely excessive in force
- debilitatingCausing severe impairment
- drainingDepleting one's reserves
- incapacitatingMaking unable to act
flattening · sapping · felling · weakening · enervating · crippling · fatigue · burnout
bowing
Bending forward in deference
- kneelingLowering onto bent legs
- supplicationHumble plea for help
- reverenceProfound admiring respect
devotion · veneration · genuflection · adoration · prayer · piety · kowtowing · salaam · obeisance · altar
yielding
Bending under pressure
- surrenderingCeasing to resist
- capitulatingCeasing to resist
- grovelingDemeaning self-abasement before another
humbling · deferring · abasing · kowtowing · submitting · acquiescing · conceding · succumbing · relenting · obeying
collapsing
Falling inward suddenly
- overwhelmingIntensely excessive in force
- debilitatingCausing severe impairment
- drainingDepleting one's reserves
incapacitating · flattening · sapping · felling · weakening · enervating · crippling · fatigue · burnout · spent
- deferencedeference, bow, curtsy, genuflect, kneeling
- submissionsubmission hold, submitting, surrendering, capitulation, yielding
- pleadingpleading, begging, beseeching, imploring, entreating
- surrendersurrender, surrenders, surrendering, I surrender, capitulate
- complianceaudit, obeying, policy, compliance officer, regulation
prostratingstanding
Position, physical or social
rising · erecting · getting up · straightening · uprighting
prostratingdefying
Actively refusing obedience
rebelling · defiant · resisting · rebellious · standing tall
prostratingblaspheming
Reviling the divine
desecrating · disrespecting · mocking · scorning · sneering