falling at feet (verb) prostrate: fall on knees; submit
Detalii: prone is lying on your face (facing downwards) - which is also true for prostrate, but only in expressing adoration or begging for protection; supine is lying on your backprostate is the gland; prostrate means 'lying face down'supine is lying face upward, prone and prostrate are lying face downward - and prostrate suggests throwing oneself down, while recumbent is lying flat in any position
Sinonime: abuse, amercement,
beating, castigation, chastening, chastisement, comeuppance, confiscation,
correction,
deprivation, disciplinary action,
discipline,
forfeit, forfeiture, gallows, hard work, infliction, just desserts, lumps, maltreatment,
mortification, mulct, ostracism,
pain,
penance,
proof, punitive measures,
purgatory,
reparation,
retribution, rod, rough treatment,
sanction, sequestration, short shrift, slave labor,
suffering,
torture,
trial,
unhappiness, victimization, what for
Antonime: encouragement, exoneration,
praise,
protection,
reward