Adjective : a country left prostrate by natural disasters.    From Dictionary.com. 

My movements were those of a man prostrated and resigned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference

Asiatic music; after he had prostrated himself in the pagoda, the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative of a Voyage to India; of a Shipwreck on board the Lady Castlereagh; and a Description of New South Wales] Reference

Of course they all leave unless they are prostrated with excitement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters of a Dakota Divorcee] Reference

The financial and business interests of the country were prostrated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anti-Slavery Opinions before the Year 1800 Read before the Cincinnati Literary Club, November 16, 1872] Reference

She prostrated herself before Urbain and burst into a torrent of tears.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

But this was a vain hope; in a few days Mr.H. was prostrated by the fever.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference

Refuge in Civita Vecchia, where the poor girl lay prostrated for many weeks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference

After the departure of her son and the detective, Madame Cormier was prostrated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

If prostrated, give tablespoonful of whisky in a quarter of a glass of hot water.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI)] Reference

At the very name of Bohetzad, the knights alighted and prostrated themselves on the earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference

When he told her she was dead she was prostrated with despair; in that case Florentin was lost.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Their energies were completely prostrated; they had lost, almost, the power to suffer or to weep.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Homestead] Reference

I should have come to say farewell, but at the time I was prostrated by a touch of Ephesian fever.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference

Untold sufferings had broken their spirits and prostrated everything like an honorable and commendable pride.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference

Its fall must have stunned and prostrated the poor fellow, for not a word or groan escaped from the court-yard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference

A young mother among the stricken left a nursing infant, which, with its father, was prostrated by the pestilence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference

The guy has prostrated himself on the ground in front of Korn lead singer Jonathan Davis and is weeping hysterically.    From Wordnik.com.  [Children Of The Korn] Reference

We've passed salt tablets out to everyone, sir, but even then it's only a matter of time before we're all prostrated.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Place in the Sun] Reference

Almost immediately after reaching the Portuguese settlement on the coast, he was prostrated with a very severe illness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference

The young son of the Vizier joined the envoy; they went together to the King's palace, and prostrated themselves before him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference

His chair was near his desk; he let himself fall into it and remained there prostrated, holding the letter in his shaking hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

In this confidence he prostrated himself before Him who has the keys of the deep, and rested with confidence in His assistance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference

He prostrated himself; and the King, after having made him rise up, ordered him to communicate the secret which he was to reveal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference

And after a year on a road to promote that record, she found herself drained and prostrated with, she thought, nothing left to say.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tift Merritt Performs in NPR's Studio 4A] Reference

But it was quickly resolved that it had already gone too far, when nine were prostrated, to save the rest by depriving them of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference

The deep gashes of the cruel whip had prostrated the lovely form of the quadroon, and she lay upon her bed of straw in the dark cell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clotelle; or, the Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; or, the President's Daughter] Reference

At this relation the officers were struck with astonishment: they prostrated themselves at his feet and watered his hand with their tears.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference

He took my wife and me into a different room, and then, following Korean custom, prostrated himself before us and expressed his thankfulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Loving Our Neighbors] Reference

They all stood aside to make way for the Duc d'Angouleme -- that Valois, who, having struggled against Henri IV, now prostrated himself before.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

On returning to his room Saniel was very much cast down, and without lighting a candle, he threw himself on the divan, where he remained prostrated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

And, you know, there were cases where the coroners 'clerks became heat prostrated trying to keep up with filing all the death certificates during the heat wave.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heat Wave Of 1896 And The Rise Of Roosevelt] Reference

Mr.. Emmerson, although completely prostrated by repeated and serious attacks of illness, sent him cheering letters so long as she could hold her pen, while Mr. Taylor wrote.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference

The sound of his own voice had the effect of encouraging and inspiriting him, while the purpose which he thus assigned to himself was sufficient to awaken his prostrated energies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost in the Fog] Reference