verb, noun
verb [V+adv./prep.]
1 to sit or lie with your arms and legs spread out in a relaxed or awkward way:
He was sprawling in an armchair in front of the TV. * Something hit her and sent her sprawling to the ground. * I tripped and went sprawling.
2 to spread in an untidy way; to cover a large area:
The town sprawled along the side of the lake.
Part of speech: noun
1 [C,usually sing,U] a large area covered with buildings that spreads from the city into the countryside in an ugly way:
attempts to control the fast-growing urban sprawl
2 [C,usually sing.] an act of spreading to cover a large area in an untidy way; sth that spreads like this
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for sprawl is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is sprawl a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, sprawl is tagged as noun.
Does sprawl appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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