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sprawl
English
Etymology
From Middle English spraulen, from Old English spreawlian, ultimately through a Proto-Germanic form cognate with *spreutan? (“to sprout”) from Proto-Indo-European *sper- (“to strew”). Compare North Frisian spraweli.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /sp???l/
- Rhymes: -??l
- (US) IPA(key): /sp??l/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /sp??l/
Verb
sprawl (third-person singular simple present sprawls, present participle sprawling, simple past and past participle sprawled)
- To sit with the limbs spread out.
- To spread out in a disorderly fashion; to straggle.
Translations
Noun
sprawl (countable and uncountable, plural sprawls)
- An ungainly sprawling posture.
- A straggling, haphazard growth, especially of housing on the edge of a city.
Translations
Derived terms
- urban sprawl
See also
- Los Angelization
References
- “sprawl”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, ?ISBN
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sprawler
English
Etymology
sprawl +? -er
Noun
sprawler (plural sprawlers)
- Someone or something which sprawls; agent noun of sprawl
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