Prostrate and Nullify

verb

• Get into a prostrate position, as in submission.
  • synonyms: bow down
• Render helpless or defenseless.
  • usage: "They prostrated the enemy"
• Throw down flat, as on the ground.
  • usage: "She prostrated herself with frustration"

adjective

• Stretched out and lying at full length along the ground.
  • usage: "found himself lying flat on the floor"
  • synonyms: flat
• Lying face downward.
  • synonyms: prone

• (v.t.) To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to reduce; as, a person prostrated by fever.
• (a.) Lying at length or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate.
• (v.t.) To throw down or cause to fall in humility or adoration; to cause to bow in humble reverence; used reflexively; as, he prostrated himself.
• (v.t.) to overthrow; to demolish; to destroy; to deprive of efficiency; to ruin; as, to prostrate a village; to prostrate a government; to prostrate law or justice.
• (v.t.) To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants.
• (a.) Lying at mercy, as a supplicant.
• (a.) Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
• (a.) Lying in a humble, lowly or suppliant posture.

verb

• Declare invalid.
  • usage: "The contract was annulled"; "void a plea"
  • synonyms: invalidate, annul, quash, void, avoid
• Show to be invalid.
  • synonyms: invalidate
• Make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of.
  • usage: "Her optimism neutralizes his gloom"; "This action will negate the effect of my efforts"
  • synonyms: neutralize, neutralise, negate

• (a.) To make void; to render invalid; to deprive of legal force or efficacy.
• (a.) To make void; to render invalid; to deprive of legal force or efficacy.