sprawl: znaczenie i definicje

To sit or lie with the body and limbs spread out awkwardly.

To spread out in a straggling or disordered fashion: untidy tenements sprawling toward the river.

To cause to spread out in a straggling or disordered fashion.

A sprawling position or posture.

Haphazard growth or extension outward, especially that resulting from real estate development on the outskirts of a city: urban sprawl.