Sprawl: Definition and part of speech

Sprawl

  1. v. i. To move, when lying down, with awkward extension and motions of the limbs; to scramble in creeping.
  2. v. i. To spread and stretch the body or limbs carelessly in a horizontal position; to lie with the limbs stretched out ungracefully.
  3. v. i. To spread irregularly, as vines, plants, or tress; to spread ungracefully, as chirography.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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