Word Meanings - PROCUMBENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Lying on the ground, but without putting forth roots; trailing; prostrate; as, a procumbent stem. (more info) to fall, bend, or lean forward; pro forward + cumbere , 1. Lying down, or on the face; prone. " Procumbent each obeyed." Cowper.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROCUMBENT)

• Prostrate
• Fallen
• flat
• procumbent
• lifeless
• ruined
• overpowered
• oppressed
• prone

Related words: (words related to PROCUMBENT)

• LIFELESS
  Destitute of life, or deprived of life; not containing, or inhabited by, living beings or vegetation; dead, or apparently dead; spiritless; powerless; dull; as, a lifeless carcass; lifeless matter; a lifeless desert; a lifeless wine; a lifeless
• PROSTRATE
  Trailing on the ground; procumbent. (more info) prostrate; pro before, forward + sternere to spread out, throw down. 1. Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate Elyot.
• PROCUMBENT
  Lying on the ground, but without putting forth roots; trailing; prostrate; as, a procumbent stem. (more info) to fall, bend, or lean forward; pro forward + cumbere , 1. Lying down, or on the face; prone. " Procumbent each obeyed." Cowper.
• OPPRESSION
  1. The act of oppressing, or state of being oppressed. 2. That which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny. "The multitude of oppressions." Job xxxv. 9. 3. A sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind;
• FALLENCY
  An exception. Jer. Taylor.
• OPPRESSOR
  One who oppresses; one who imposes unjust burdens on others; one who harasses others with unjust laws or unreasonable severity. The orphan pines while the oppressor feeds. Shak. To relieve the oppressed and to punish the oppressor. Swift.
• FALLEN
  Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead. Some ruined temple or fallen monument. Rogers.
• RUIN
  1. The act of falling or tumbling down; fall. "His ruin startled the other steeds." Chapman. 2. Such a change of anything as destroys it, or entirely defeats its object, or unfits it for use; destruction; overthrow; as, the ruin of a ship or
• OPPRESSURE
  Oppression.
• PRONELY
  In a prone manner or position.
• RUINIFORM
  Having the appearance of ruins, or of the ruins of houses; -- said of certain minerals.
• PRONENESS
  1. The quality or state of being prone, or of bending downward; as, the proneness of beasts is opposed to the erectness of man. 2. The state of lying with the face down; -- opposed to supineness. 3. Descent; declivity; as, the proneness of a hill.
• OVERPOWER
  A dominating power. Bacon.
• OPPRESSIVE
  1. Unreasonably burdensome; unjustly severe, rigorous, or harsh; as, oppressive taxes; oppressive exactions of service; an oppressive game law. Macaulay. 2. Using oppression; tyrannical; as, oppressive authority or commands. 3. Heavy; overpowering;
• PRONE
  1. Bending forward; inclined; not erect. Towards him they bend With awful reverence prone. Milton. 2. Prostrate; flat; esp., lying with the face down; -- opposed to supine. Which, as the wind, Blew where it listed, laying all things prone. Byron.
• RUINATION
  The act of ruining, or the state of being ruined.
• RUINER
  One who, or that which, ruins.
• RUINOUS
  1. Causing, or tending to cause, ruin; destructive; baneful; pernicious; as, a ruinous project. After a night of storm so ruinous. Milton. 2. Characterized by ruin; ruined; dilapidated; as, an edifice, bridge, or wall in a ruinous state.
• PRONEPHROS; PRONEPHRON
  The head kidney. See under Head.
• OPPRESS
  1. To impose excessive burdens upon; to overload; hence, to treat with unjust rigor or with cruelty. Wyclif. For thee, oppressèd king, am I cast down. Shak. Behold the kings of the earth; how they oppress Thy chosen ! Milton. 2. To ravish; to
• PRUINOUS
  Frosty; pruinose.
• JAW-FALLEN
  Dejected; chopfallen.
• CRESTFALLEN
  1. With hanging head; hence, dispirited; dejected; cowed. Let it make thee crestfullen; Ay, and allay this thy abortive pride. Shak. 2. Having the crest, or upper part of the neck, hanging to one side; -- said of a horse.
• PRUINATE
  See PRUINOSE
• DOWNFALLEN
  Fallen; ruined. Carew.
• PRUINOSE
  Frosty; covered with fine scales, hairs, dust, bloom, or the like, so as to give the appearance of frost.
• INOPPRESSIVE
  Not oppressive or burdensome. O. Wolcott.
• CHAPFALLEN
  Having the lower chap or jaw drooping, -- an indication of humiliation and dejection; crestfallen; discouraged. See Chopfallen.
• WINDFALLEN
  Blown down by the wind.