Crossword clues for sprawl
sprawl
- Lie with limbs spread out
- Lie outstretched
- Spread out haphazardly
- Lie with limbs spread
- Haphazard urban growth
- Ungainly loll
- Undesirable development around a city
- Unchecked development of real estate around a city
- Take as much space as you can
- Suburban stretch
- Suburban problem
- Stretched awkwardly
- Stretch (out), like a dog in the heat
- Sit with one's limbs spread out
- Sit or lie with one's limbs spread out
- Sit in an ungainly manner
- Lie spread-eagled
- Lie down ungracefully
- City growth, urban ...
- Haphazard growth
- Grow every which way
- Urban ___ (city's uncontrolled expansion)
- Spread out ungracefully
- Urban problem
- Urban phenomenon
- An ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about
- Straggle
- Stretch out haphazardly
- Urban ___ (city expansion)
- Superman will occasionally sit in an ungainly manner
- Spread out untidily
- Spread out irregularly
- Spread irregularly
- Spanish lecturer's undressed in lounge
- Records describing campaign returned to lounge
- Ungainly posture
- Urban planner's concern
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
sprawl \sprawl\ (spr[add]l), n. The position or state resulting from sprawling; as, he sat on the couch in a sprawl; uncontrolled urban sprawl.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English spreawlian "move convulsively," with cognates in the Scandinavian languages (such as Norwegian sprala, Danish sprælle) and North Frisian spraweli, probably ultimately from PIE root *sper- (4) "to strew" (see sprout (v.)). Meaning "to spread out" is from c.1300. That of "to spread or stretch in a careless manner" is attested from 1540s; of things, from 1745. Related: Sprawled; sprawling.
1719, from sprawl (v.); meaning "straggling expansion of built-up districts into surrounding countryside" is from 1955.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An ungainly sprawling posture. 2 A straggling, haphazard growth, especially of housing on the edge of a city. vb. To sit with the limbs spread out.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Sprawl can refer to:
- Sprawl (grappling), a defensive technique in wrestling and martial arts used to prevent a takedown.
- Urban sprawl, also called suburban sprawl
- The Sprawl, the metropolitan region stretching from Boston to Atlanta in the same named William Gibson's fiction trilogy
- The Sprawl is also the nickname of Titan Station, the setting of the video game Dead Space 2, a space station built on the fragments of Titan
Sprawling can also refer to:
- Sprawling (posture), a common posture among tetrapods, with the limbs on either side of the body.
A sprawl is a martial arts and wrestling term for a defensive technique that is done in response to certain takedown attempts, typically double or single leg takedown attempts. The sprawl is performed by scooting the legs backwards, so as to land on the upper back of the opponent attempting the takedown. The resultant position is also known as a sprawl or sprawling position.
Ideally, the sprawling combatant should arch his back as much as possible and keep his knees off the floor. His options from the sprawl include attempting to gain leverage on the lower back by hooking underneath the elbows, throwing in a headlock, and grabbing his opponent's ankles and trying to get behind his opponent.
In mixed martial arts, sprawling is an important aspect of the sprawl-and-brawl strategy, while it is also used by numerous other wrestlers and mixed martial arts stylists.
Usage examples of "sprawl".
She whirled, her right hand raised, but before she could use the controlling ring she lay sprawled on the floor, one side of her face ablaze from the blow of a phantom hand.
Suddenly Mandel and Akela were thrust back by an invisible force, both landing on their backsides, sprawled on the lawn.
The carriage turned onto a cross street and they passed an open gate, Alec glimpsed an expanse of open ground and beyond it a sprawling edifice of pale grey stone decorated along the battlements with patterns of black and white.
Stepping around, Alec and Micum found him sprawled in a nest of cushions, books, and scrolls with the cat on his chest.
He gazed across the harbour to where the Ama fleet lay sprawled across the middle distance.
She sprawled on her belly over Amir Bedawi, her cheek rested on his chest.
He thought of the ancient legends of Ultimate Chaos, at whose centre sprawls the blind idiot god Azathoth, Lord of All Things, encircled by his flopping horde of mindless and amorphous dancers, and lulled by the thin monotonous piping of a demoniac flute held in nameless paws.
Capitol Hill has an anachronistic, almost bohemian, feel to it, a total contrast with the rest of the sprawl.
When he hit the lobby he found Anadem sprawled on the chaise in her office.
At the hubs and junctions of the irrigation system, Auger made out the off-white sprawl of cities and townships, the tentative scratches of roads and the lines of tethered dirigibles.
When Becker landed in Chicago, he immediately summoned a cab and spent the next half hour taking it out to the Inn By The Lake, a sprawling, half-century-old Lake Forest hostelry that had been added onto at least three times and somewhere along the way had given up all hope of ever appearing to be a unified structure.
Some lay sprawled, victims of the bomblets released by the first salvo of rockets.
A calculating gleam grew in his eyes as he considered the weapons at hand, and he began to relish the thought of the bondsman sprawled lifeless in a heap.
Old Abershaw, stumbling toward the river bank, sprawled with a wild shriek, thinking that both The Shadow and Bosco had overtaken him.
From these feet let the witness infer our whole massive Hercules, a bulk that sprawls and stretches beyond the rivers through the tunnels piercing their beds and that towers into the skies with innumerable tops--a Hercules blent of Briareus and Cerberus, but not so bad a monster as it seemed then to threaten becoming.