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Preventing prostrate cancer: stand up

prostrate

SYLLABICATION: pros·trate

TRANSITIVE VERB: [Inflected forms: pros·trat·ed, pros·trat·ing, pros·trates] 1. To put or throw flat with the face down, as in submission or adoration. 2. To cause to lie flat. 3. To reduce to extreme weakness or incapacitation; overcome.

ADJECTIVE: 1. Lying face down, as in submission or adoration. 2. Lying flat or at full length. 3. Reduced to extreme weakness or incapacitation; overcome. 4. Botany Growing flat along the ground.


[source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000 - online at bartleby.com]

Although... maybe "overcome" does have something to do with it.

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