sprawl
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
Etymology: From Middle English spraulen, from Old English spreawlian (“move convulsively”), ultimately through a Proto-Germanic form cognate with *spreutaną (“to sprout”) from Proto-Indo-European *sper- (“to strew”). Compare North Frisian spraweli, Norwegian sprala, Swedish sprala.
Inflected forms:
form: sprawls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sprawling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sprawled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sprawled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sprawls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To sit with the limbs spread out.
pos: verb
examples: There was no special place for him or his little affairs, and he was forbidden to sprawl on sofas and explain his ideas about the manufacture of this world and his hopes for the future. Sprawling was lazy and wore out sofas, and little boys were not expected to talk.
But most of all I like to sit in the dark with all these hearty souls sprawled around me on the floor and hear them talk. I am sorry to say that I can never believe that floor-sprawling is anything but a pose; I have tried it and it is not comfortable but it looks well in the flickering fire-light, and is in good magazine-story tradition.
There were pillows on the floor, a few chairs, and four or five students sprawled here and there watching a football game.
gloss: To spread out in a disorderly fashion; to straggle.
pos: verb
examples: The hatched young ones are ſodl to thoſe who breed them up, and theſe try in the following manner whether they are hatched too ſoon or not: they take hold the little ducks by the bill, and their bodies hang down ; if they ſprawl and extend their feet and wings, they are hatched in due time ; but if they have had too much heat, they hang without any ſtruggling.
A shrewd blow, it caught him off balance, and after one ineffectual stagger he sprawled backward and lay for a moment staring up in blank surprise
German trucks stood along the road, the drivers dead in the seats or sprawled on the ground nearby. […] The woods were dotted with the corpses of German machine gunners still sprawled grotesquely over their weapons, having given their lives to buy time for Group Mihiel’s escape.
Bell sprawled full length to turn a Sandaza drive wide of the far post, but Saints had done enough to inflict Killie's first home defeat of the season.
gloss: To scoot the legs backwards, so as to land on the upper back of an opponent attempting a takedown.
pos: verb
gloss: An ungainly sprawling posture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A straggling, haphazard growth, especially of housing on the edge of a city.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He briefly compares the relative merits of providing for that growth by the usual method of urban sprawl and by directing it into suburban satellite communities with the integrity preserved and comes out strongly for the latter method.
Many of our past difficulties in dealing with sprawl come from some very mistaken if widely held assumptions. One is that sprawl is due to too many people and not enough land.
Getting people to think about the future is difficult. Just ask some of the people who end up being most concerned about sprawl—the millions who move into suburban subdivisions, only to have their dreams of the good life spoiled by maddening traffic and water bans, because millions more moved into the next subdivision over.
gloss: A defensive technique that is done in response to certain takedown attempts, where one scoots the legs backwards so as to land on the upper back of the opponent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: Los Angelization
Derived words: antisprawl
asprawl
spraddle
sprawler
sprawliness
sprawling
sprawlingness
sprawly
suburban sprawl
urban sprawl
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: разпръсквам се
roman: razprǎskvam se
lang: Czech
word: roztahovat se
lang: Czech
word: táhnout se
lang: Czech
word: prostírat se
lang: Dutch
word: verspreiden
lang: Dutch
word: zich uitstrekken
lang: Finnish
word: rehottaa
lang: Finnish
word: levitä
lang: French
word: s'étaler, s'étendre
lang: Galician
word: escarranchar
lang: German
word: sich ausbreiten
lang: Māori
word: pūkoni
lang: Portuguese
word: espalhar
lang: Russian
word: раски́дываться
roman: raskídyvatʹsja
lang: Russian
word: раски́нуться
roman: raskínutʹsja
lang: Russian
word: простира́ться
roman: prostirátʹsja
lang: Russian
word: простере́ться
roman: prosterétʹsja
lang: Russian
word: растя́гиваться
roman: rastjágivatʹsja
lang: Russian
word: растяну́ться
roman: rastjanútʹsja
lang: Spanish
word: desparramarse
lang: Ukrainian
word: розкидатися
roman: rozkydatysja
lang: Ukrainian
word: розпростертися
roman: rozprostertysja
lang: Ukrainian
word: розтягтися
roman: roztjahtysja