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