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splayed

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/spleɪd/ English

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verb

  1. To spread; spread out.
  2. To dislocate, as a shoulder bone.
  3. To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window etc.
  4. To rearrange (a splay tree) so that a desired element is placed at the root.

adjective

  1. Of a door or a window: bevelled so as to be larger on one side of the wall than on the other.“a splayed door frame”

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