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sprawls

noun

Meaning

  1. An ungainly sprawling posture.
  2. A straggling, haphazard growth, especially of housing on the edge of a city.
  3. To sit with the limbs spread out.
  4. To spread out in a disorderly fashion; to straggle.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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