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sprawl

  [sprawl]
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–verb (used without object)
1. to be stretched or spread out in an unnatural or ungraceful manner: The puppy's legs sprawled in all directions.
2. to sit or lie in a relaxed position with the limbs spread out carelessly or ungracefully: He sprawled across the bed.
3. to spread out, extend, or be distributed in a straggling or irregular manner, as vines, buildings, handwriting, etc.
4. to crawl awkwardly with the aid of all the limbs; scramble.
–verb (used with object)
5. to stretch out (the limbs) as in sprawling.
6. to spread out or distribute in a straggling manner.
–noun
7. the act or an instance of sprawling; a sprawling posture.
8. a straggling array of something.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME spraulen to move awkwardly, OE spreawlian; c. Fris (N dial.) spraweli

Related forms:
sprawler, noun
sprawl⋅ing⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
3. straggle, branch.
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sprawl   (sprôl)   
v.   sprawled, sprawl·ing, sprawls

v.   intr.
  1. To sit or lie with the body and limbs spread out awkwardly.
  2. To spread out in a straggling or disordered fashion: untidy tenements sprawling toward the river.
v.   tr.
To cause to spread out in a straggling or disordered fashion.
n.  
  1. A sprawling position or posture.
  2. Haphazard growth or extension outward, especially that resulting from real estate development on the outskirts of a city: urban sprawl.

[Middle English sprawlen, from Old English sprēawlian, to writhe; see sper- in Indo-European roots.]
sprawl'er n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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