sprawl

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /spɹɔːl/
• (America) IPA: /spɹɔl/
• (cot-caught) IPA: /spɹɑl/

Verb

sprawl (sprawls, present participle sprawling; past and past participle sprawled)

1. To sit with the limbs spread out.
2. To spread out in a disorderly fashion; to straggle.

Translations

• French: s'affaler
• German: ausspreizen, grätschen
• Italian: stravaccarsi
• Russian: разва́ливаться
• Spanish: despatarrar

Translations

• French: s'étaler, s'étendre
• German: sich ausbreiten
• Russian: раски́дываться

Noun

sprawl

1. An ungainly sprawling posture.
2. A straggling, haphazard growth, especially of housing on the edge of a city.

Translations

• German: Wuchern, Ausufern
• Russian: разраста́ние
• Spanish: desparramo

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