sprawl

verb · nounA2

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

sprawls

V_ing/Gerund

sprawling

V_ed/pp

sprawled

1.
To sit with the limbs spread out.
2.
To spread out in a disorderly fashion; to straggle.
Đồng nghĩa: splay
3.
(wrestling, martial arts) To scoot the legs backwards, so as to land on the upper back of an opponent attempting a takedown.

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

sprawls

1.
(countable, uncountable)An ungainly sprawling posture.
2.
(countable, uncountable)A straggling, haphazard growth, especially of housing on the edge of a city.
3.
(countable, uncountable)(wrestling, martial arts) 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.

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Đồng nghĩa

splay

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Nguồn gốc từ

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 spraweli, sprala, sprala.