prostrate vs reclining

prostrate

adj
  • Trailing on the ground; procumbent. 

  • Lying flat, face-down. 

  • Physically incapacitated from environmental exposure or debilitating disease. 

  • Emotionally devastated. 

verb
  • To throw oneself down in submission. 

  • To lie flat or face-down. 

  • To overcome or overpower. 

  • To cause to lie down, to flatten. 

reclining

adj
  • Bending away from the perpendicular; recumbent. 

  • Capable of being reclined, or moved into a more horizontal position. 

How often have the words prostrate and reclining occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )