asprawl
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 7
/əˈspɹɔːl/
Definition of asprawl
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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(not-comparable)Sprawling; covered or filled (with something sprawling).
“1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, New York and London: Street & Smith, Part 2, Chapter 4, p. 129, […] he saw […] a man lying flat upon his face upon the ground, with his arms and legs all asprawl.”
“[…] Milton […] fully clothed, asprawl on the couch, lay snoring with a soft, blubbering sound,”
“1984, J. P. Donleavy, De Alfonce Tennis, New York: Dutton / Seymour Lawrence, Part 5, p. 86, a vast drawing room asprawl with immense sofas, high backed chairs, two massive refectory tables and four chimney pieces”
“[…] I see a bicycle asprawl in abandon among the ferns, handlebars turned sideways and its front wheel jutting up at a somehow unseemly angle,”
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adj
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(not-comparable)Sprawling; covered or filled (with something sprawling).
“1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, New York and London: Street & Smith, Part 2, Chapter 4, p. 129, […] he saw […] a man lying flat upon his face upon the ground, with his arms and legs all asprawl.”
“[…] Milton […] fully clothed, asprawl on the couch, lay snoring with a soft, blubbering sound,”
“1984, J. P. Donleavy, De Alfonce Tennis, New York: Dutton / Seymour Lawrence, Part 5, p. 86, a vast drawing room asprawl with immense sofas, high backed chairs, two massive refectory tables and four chimney pieces”
“[…] I see a bicycle asprawl in abandon among the ferns, handlebars turned sideways and its front wheel jutting up at a somehow unseemly angle,”
prep
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Sprawling over or across.
“All through the night which followed her panic flight from the huge, heavy-footed figure that had groped out for her, called to her, and dropped asprawl her own small cloak in the doorway, Denny Bolton’s blood-soiled face and drunkenly reckless laugh had been with her,”
“Hundreds were asprawl the open space between the Cross and the kirkyard.”
“From a distance the wood looked like a cloak, flung carelessly asprawl the shoulder of the hill,”
“[…] she thought that not for anything would she wish him to see her naked thus, naked and cut, asprawl a windowsill.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From a- + sprawl.
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