EGAVE

sprawl

About 0.77 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To sit with the limbs spread out.
  2. verb To spread out in a disorderly fashion; to straggle.
  3. verb To scoot the legs backwards, so as to land on the upper back of an opponent attempting a takedown.
  4. noun An ungainly sprawling posture.
  5. noun A straggling, haphazard growth, especially of housing on the edge of a city.
  6. noun A defensive technique that is done in response to certain takedown attempts, where one scoots the legs backwards so as to land on the upper back of the opponent.

Similar words

straggle scatter dispersion dispersal disruption spread encroachment loll disarray extension

Often followed by

of and in on is over that has across

Word family

sprawled sprawling sprawls

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