Synonyms of the word sprawl


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sprawl

  • v. To sit with the limbs spread out.
  • v. To spread out in a disorderly fashion; to straggle.
  • n. An ungainly sprawling posture.
  • n. A straggling, haphazard growth, especially of housing on the edge of a city.

attitude

  • n. The position of the body or way of carrying oneself; posture.
  • n. Disposition or state of mind.
  • n. (uncountable, countable) A negative, irritating, or irritated attitude; posturing.
  • n. (aeronautics, nautical, engineering) The orientation of a vehicle or other object relative to the horizon,…
  • n. (ballet) A position similar to arabesque, but with the raised leg bent at the knee.
  • v. To assume or to place in a particular position or orientation; to pose.
  • v. To express an attitude through one's posture, bearing, tone of voice, etc.

conurbation

  • n. A continuous aggregation of built-up urban communities created as a result of urban sprawl.

distribute

  • v. (transitive) To divide into portions and dispense.
  • v. (transitive) To supply to retail outlets.
  • v. (transitive) To deliver or pass out.
  • v. (transitive) To scatter or spread.
  • v. (transitive) To apportion (more or less evenly).
  • v. (transitive) To classify or separate into categories.
  • v. (intransitive, mathematics) To be distributive.
  • v. (printing) To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.
  • v. (printing) To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.
  • v. (logic) To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise.

lie

  • v. (intransitive) To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
  • v. (intransitive) To be placed or situated.
  • v. To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.
  • v. Used with in: to be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist.
  • v. (archaic) To lodge; to sleep.
  • v. To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
  • v. (law) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.
  • n. (golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.
  • n. (medicine) The position of a fetus in the womb.
  • v. (intransitive) To give false information intentionally with intent to deceive.
  • v. (intransitive) To convey a false image or impression.
  • n. An intentionally false statement; an intentional falsehood.
  • n. A statement intended to deceive, even if literally true; a half-truth.
  • n. Anything that misleads or disappoints.

position

  • n. A place or location.
  • n. A post of employment; a job.
  • n. A status or rank.
  • n. An opinion, stand, or stance.
  • n. A posture.
  • n. (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
  • n. (finance) An amount of securities or commodities held by a person, firm, or institution.
  • n. (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and…
  • n. (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
  • v. To put into place.

posture

  • n. The way a person holds and positions their body.
  • n. A situation or condition.
  • n. One's attitude or the social or political position one takes towards an issue or another person.
  • n. (rare) The position of someone or something relative to another; position; situation.
  • v. (intransitive) to put one's body into a posture or series of postures, especially hoping that one will…
  • v. (intransitive) to pretend to have an opinion or a conviction.
  • v. (transitive) To place in a particular position or attitude; to pose.

sit

  • v. (intransitive, of a person) To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the…
  • v. (intransitive, of a person) To move oneself into such a position.
  • v. (intransitive, of an object) To occupy a given position permanently.
  • v. To remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition.
  • v. (government) To be a member of a deliberative body.
  • v. (law, government) Of a legislative or, especially, a judicial body such as a court, to be in session.
  • v. To lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh.
  • v. To be adjusted; to fit.
  • v. (intransitive, of an agreement or arrangement) To be accepted or acceptable; to work.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to.
  • v. (transitive) To accommodate in seats; to seat.
  • v. (intransitive) shortened form of babysit.
  • v. (transitive, US) To babysit.
  • v. (transitive, Australia, New Zealand, Britain) To take, to undergo or complete (an examination or test).
  • v. To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate.
  • v. To take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of oneself made, such as a picture…
  • v. To have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction.
  • n. (rare, Buddhism) an event (usually one full day or more) where the primary goal is to sit in meditation.

sprawling

  • v. present participle of sprawl.
  • adj. That sprawls.
  • adj. Expansive; extensive.
  • n. The act of one who sprawls.

spread

  • v. (transitive) To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.
  • v. (transitive) To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions.
  • v. (transitive) To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.
  • v. (intransitive) To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.
  • v. (transitive) To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.
  • v. (intransitive) To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.
  • v. (transitive) To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.
  • v. (transitive) To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.
  • v. To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.
  • v. (intransitive, slang) To open one’s legs, especially for sexual favours.
  • n. The act of spreading.
  • n. Something that has been spread.
  • n. An expanse of land.
  • n. A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.
  • n. A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).
  • n. A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.
  • n. (bread, etc.) Any form of food designed to be spread such as butters or jams.
  • n. An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.
  • n. Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc.
  • n. A numerical difference.
  • n. (business, economics) The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.
  • n. (trading, economics, finance) The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another…
  • n. (trading, finance) The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another…
  • n. (trading, finance) The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery…
  • n. (trading) An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of…
  • n. (trading) The difference between bidding and asking price.
  • n. (finance) The difference between the prices of two similar items.
  • n. (geometry) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
  • n. The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone.

straggle

  • v. To stray from the road, course or line of march.
  • v. To wander about; ramble.
  • v. To spread at irregular intervals.
  • v. To escape or stretch beyond proper limits, as the branches of a plant; to spread widely apart; to shoot…
  • v. To be dispersed or separated; to occur at intervals.
  • n. An irregular, spread-out group.
  • n. An outlier; something that has strayed beyond the normal limits.

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