sprawl

Signification (English)

Verb

1. To sit with the limbs spread out.
2. To spread out in a disorderly fashion; to straggle.
3. To scoot the legs backwards, so as to land on the upper back of an opponent attempting a takedown.

Noun

1. An ungainly sprawling posture.
2. A straggling, haphazard growth, especially of housing on the edge of a city.
3. A defensive technique that is done in response to certain takedown attempts, where one scoots the legs backwards so as to land on the upper back of the opponent.

Concepts

s’étaler

s’étendre

conurbation

expansion

affaler

étalement

être affalé

étalement urbain

disperser

s'affaler

disséminer

éparpiller

Synonyms

stretch

spread out

spread

straggle

stretch out

lounge

loll

expand

sprawling

conurbation

urban sprawl

infest

lengthen

lie

prolong

radiate

reach out

run out

sit

🪑

slouch

spread-eagle

strain

stretch along

suburbia

tense

spraddle

wallow

welter

lie sprawled

put forth branches

activity

bush out

branch

branch out

crane

creep

distend

draw up

energy

extend

fork

go

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/spɹɔːl/

Étymologie (English)

Inherited from moyen anglais: spraulen

Inherited from ancien anglais: spreawlian

Cognate with frison septentrional: spraweli

In summary

From Middle English spraulen, from Old English spreawlian, ultimately through a Proto-Germanic form cognate with *spreutaną (“to sprout”) from Proto-Indo-European *sper- (“to strew”). Compare North Frisian spraweli.