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Word entry · 6 letters

sprawl

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"Spread out loosely"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /spɹɔːl/Part of speech verb, nounSorted alprswStarts with SEnds with L1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. sit or lie with one's limbs spread out

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • There were pillows on the floor, a few chairs, and four or five students sprawled here and there watching a football game.
  • 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
  • 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.

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