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prone
/pɹoʊn/
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What does prone mean?
adjective
- Lying face-down.
- Of the hand, forearm or foot: turned facing away from the body; with the thumb inward or big toe downward.
- Having a downward inclination or slope.
More meanings (4)
adjective
- Shooting from a position while lying down.
- (figuratively) Predisposed, liable, inclined, given (to something) (most often, specifically to being befallen by an unsought bad outcome, rather than to undertaking a willful behavior or to having a happy accident).
verb
- To place in a prone position, to place face down.
proper noun
- Alternative form of Prome (“the city of Pyay”).
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IPA pronunciation
/pɹoʊn/
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I found myself lying prone upon a bed of yellowish, mosslike vegetation which stretched around me in all directions for interminable miles.
The window went up, a maid-servant’s discordant voice profaned the holy calm, and a deluge of water drenched the prone martyr’s remains!
More book examples (3)
And the strength of my rage carried me so far as where the horse stood, and then I fell prone beside it.
For some minutes he lay prone on the tin roof, and during that time a number of distressing ideas occurred to him.
All of them have one, in point of fact, but only when age comes, age prone to rest and to long slumbers.