asprawl

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/əˈspɹɔːl/

adjective

Sprawling; covered or filled (with something sprawling).

Scrabble 12

Meanings

adjectiveasprawl (not comparable)
  1. not comparableSprawling; 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.

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    […] Milton […] fully clothed, asprawl on the couch, lay snoring with a soft, blubbering sound,

    1951, William Styron, chapter 1, in Lie Down in Darkness, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, page 24

    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,

    2005, John Banville, The Sea, London: Picador, Part 1, p. 113
preposition
  1. Sprawling over or across.

    Hundreds were asprawl the open space between the Cross and the kirkyard.

    1947, James Barke, The Song in the Green Thorn Tree, London: Collins, Part 1, p. 78
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    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,

    1914, Larry Evans, chapter 11, in Once to Every Man, New York: H. K. Fly, pages 151–152

    From a distance the wood looked like a cloak, flung carelessly asprawl the shoulder of the hill,

    1977, Ewan Clarkson, chapter 3, in The Badgers of Summercombe,, New York: Dutton, page 18

    […] she thought that not for anything would she wish him to see her naked thus, naked and cut, asprawl a windowsill.

    1994, Edna O’Brien, House of Splendid Isolation, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, page 147

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