say it: prah-STRAY-shuhn
prostration is a noun meaning "an abrupt failure of function or complete physical exhaustion". It carries 3 recorded senses.
abject submission; the emotional equivalent of prostrating your body
the act of assuming a prostrate position
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for prostration come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.