Dictionary Entry
sprawl
sprawl is a 6-letter English word with 7 senses as intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To spread and stretch the body or limbs carelessly in a horizontal position; to lie with the limbs stretched out ungracefully. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To spread and stretch the body or limbs carelessly in a horizontal position; to lie with the limbs stretched out ungracefully.
- 2intransitive verb
To spread irregularly, as vines, plants, or tress; to spread ungracefully, as chirography.
- 3intransitive verb
To move, when lying down, with awkward extension and motions of the limbs; to scramble in creeping.
- 4noun
an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about
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- 5noun
an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities
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- 6verb
sit or lie with one's limbs spread out
- 7verb
go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way
"Branches straggling out quite far"
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