asprawl

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
14
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/əˈspɹɔːl/

Definition of asprawl

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (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

  1. (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

  1. 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.”

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Etymology

From a- + sprawl.

Anagrams of asprawl

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