Sprawl
English
Verb
Sprawl (third-person singular simple present Sprawls, present participle Sprawling, simple past and past participle Sprawled)
- To sit with the limbs spread out.
- To spread out in a disorderly fashion; to straggle.
Noun
Sprawl (uncountable)- An ungainly sprawling posture.
- A straggling, haphazard growth, especially of housing on the edge of a city.
Adverbs for Sprawl
grotesquely; drunkenly; violently; lazily; indolently; clumsily; uncouthly.
Thesaurus
accubation, accumbency, be lengthy, be prolonged, bed, bed down, belong, branch, branch out, capsize, careen, come a cropper, couch, crane, crawl, cropper, culbute, curl up, decumbency, deploy, disperse, dive, drape, expand, expansion, extend, extend out, extension, fall, fall down, fall flat, fall headlong, fall over, fall prostrate, fan, fan out, flare, flop, flounder, forced landing, get a cropper, go to bed, go to rest, grovel, header, lay, lie, lie around, lie down, lie flat, lie limply, lie prone, lie prostrate, list, loll, lounge, lounging, lurch, lying, meander, open, open up, outreach, outspread, outstretch, overgrow, overrun, pitch, plunge, pratfall, proneness, prostration, ramble, ramify, reach out, reclination, recline, reclining, recumbency, repose, rest, scramble, settle to rest, slouch, slump, snug down, spill, splay, spraddle, sprangle, spread, spread like wildfire, spread out, spread-eagle, stagger, stand on tiptoes, straddle, straggle, stretch, stretch out, stumble, supineness, take a fall, take a flop, take a header, take a pratfall, take a spill, take it easy, take life easy, tilt, topple, topple down, topple over, totter, trip, tumble, turn turtle, unfold, wander, widen
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔːl
- (US) IPA: /spɹɔl/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA: /spɹɑl/
