transcription, транскрипция: [ sprɔ:l ]
( sprawls, sprawling, sprawled)
1.
If you sprawl somewhere, you sit or lie down with your legs and arms spread out in a careless way.
She sprawled on the bed as he had left her, not even moving to cover herself up...
VERB : V prep / adv
see also sprawled
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Sprawl out means the same as sprawl .
He would take two aspirin and sprawl out on his bed.
PHRASAL VERB : V P prep
2.
If you say that a place sprawls , you mean that it covers a large area of land.
The State Recreation Area sprawls over 900 acres on the southern tip of Key Biscayne...
VERB : V prep
3.
You can use sprawl to refer to an area where a city has grown outwards in an uncontrolled way.
The whole urban sprawl of Ankara contains over 2.6m people.
N-UNCOUNT : usu with supp