verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
out
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The dachshund had his feet splayed out on the sidewalk.
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They flung themselves on him, yanked his legs back, crossing them so that his knees splayed out .
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Arms and legs splayed out - for the pictures.
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Inside, a huge leafless oak has been planted in a glass floor with the roots splayed out beneath your feet.
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His fingers are splayed out so that he can feel the very pulse of hundreds of megabytes of information flowing into him.
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But try sitting on them and they will end up flattened with four feet splayed out to all points of the compass.
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Kali threw down her bunch of ragwort and it landed, splayed out limply, on the top.
■ NOUN
leg
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Her long willowy legs splayed outwards into a balletic second.
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Her legs splayed inelegantly and with her mouth wide and dry with fear, she stared up at the stranger.
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Arms and legs splayed out - for the pictures.
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In one shot the 27-year-old beauty sits wantonly on a jagged rock, her legs splayed .
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He sat astride a ladder-backed wooden chair, his legs splayed out in front of him.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Cows with the disease foam at the mouth and their legs splay out.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Behind the Sergeant the Dragoons splayed left and right, but three other horses and four more men died.
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Four made a phalanx before the booth, tapping their lead truncheons, their feet splayed like a squad of riot police.
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He splayed into the air; over the water; one arm flung back over his head like a trapeze artist.
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Her long willowy legs splayed outwards into a balletic second.
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My hands are still splayed over my lower face.
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She stood beside McAiister; her feet splayed as though barring the door.
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Walking through the old foundations, you discover broken bits of dinner plates and an occasional fork with its tines splayed.