sprawl

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• Received-Pronunciation: /spɹɔːl/
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• Australian, British, New-Zealand, Southern, Standard: /spɹoːl/
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• /spɹɔl/ without the cot–caught merger
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• cot-caught-merger: /spɹɑl/
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• Scotland: /spɾɔl/
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• Wales: /spɾɔːl/
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• rhymes with -ɔːl
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• CMU ARPABET: S P R AO1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English spraulen, from Old English spreawlian (“move convulsively”), ultimately through a Proto-Germanic form cognate with *spreutaną (“to sprout”) from Proto-Indo-European *sper- (“to strew”). Compare North Frisian spraweli, Norwegian sprala, Swedish sprala.

73 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: протягане (protjagane) — ungainly sprawling posture
• Finnish: retkotus — ungainly sprawling posture
• Hungarian: tolólábak — ungainly sprawling posture
• Hungarian: tolóláb — ungainly sprawling posture
• Catalan: eixample — haphazard growth
• Finnish: leviäminen — haphazard growth
• German: Wuchern — haphazard growth
• German: Ausufern — haphazard growth
• German: Ausdehnung — haphazard growth
• German: Ausbreitung — haphazard growth
• Russian: разраста́ние (razrastánije) — haphazard growth
• Spanish: desparramo — haphazard growth
• Bulgarian: протягам се (protjagam se) — to sit with limbs spread out
• Catalan: arrepapar-se — to sit with limbs spread out
• Czech: rozvalit se — to sit with limbs spread out
• Czech: rozvalovat se — to sit with limbs spread out
• Czech: roztahovat se — to sit with limbs spread out
• Dutch: armen en benen uitspreiden — to sit with limbs spread out
• Finnish: retkottaa — to sit with limbs spread out
• French: s'affaler — to sit with limbs spread out
• Galician: escarranchar — to sit with limbs spread out
• Georgian: იშხლართება (išxlarteba) — to sit with limbs spread out
• German: ausspreizen — to sit with limbs spread out
• German: grätschen — to sit with limbs spread out
• Italian: stravaccarsi — to sit with limbs spread out
• Māori: pūkoni — to sit with limbs spread out
• Polish: rozwalić się — to sit with limbs spread out
• Polish: rozsiąść się — to sit with limbs spread out
• Polish: rozjebać się — to sit with limbs spread out
• Portuguese: esparramar-se — to sit with limbs spread out
• Russian: разва́ливаться (razválivatʹsja) — to sit with limbs spread out
• Russian: развали́ться (razvalítʹsja) — to sit with limbs spread out
• Russian: разъезжа́ться (razʺjezžátʹsja) — to sit with limbs spread out
• Russian: разъе́хаться (razʺjéxatʹsja) — to sit with limbs spread out
• Serbo-Croatian: zavaliti se — to sit with limbs spread out
• Slovak: rozvaliť sa — to sit with limbs spread out
• Slovak: natiahnuť sa — to sit with limbs spread out
• Slovene: zavaliti se — to sit with limbs spread out
• Spanish: desparrancarse — to sit with limbs spread out
• Spanish: esparrancarse — to sit with limbs spread out
• Spanish: despernancarse — to sit with limbs spread out
• Spanish: espernancarse — to sit with limbs spread out
• Spanish: descuajeringarse — to sit with limbs spread out
• Spanish: descuajaringarse — to sit with limbs spread out
• Spanish: despatarrarse — to sit with limbs spread out
• Spanish: espatarrarse — to sit with limbs spread out
• Spanish: despaturrarse — to sit with limbs spread out
• Ukrainian: розвалитися (rozvalytysja) — to sit with limbs spread out
• Ukrainian: розкинутися (rozkynutysja) — to sit with limbs spread out
• Ukrainian: розпростертися (rozprostertysja) — to sit with limbs spread out
• Bulgarian: разпръсквам се (razprǎskvam se) — to spread out in disorderly fashion
• Czech: roztahovat se — to spread out in disorderly fashion
• Czech: táhnout se — to spread out in disorderly fashion
• Czech: prostírat se — to spread out in disorderly fashion
• Dutch: verspreiden — to spread out in disorderly fashion
• Dutch: zich uitstrekken — to spread out in disorderly fashion
• Finnish: rehottaa — to spread out in disorderly fashion
• Finnish: levitä — to spread out in disorderly fashion
• French: s'étaler, s'étendre — to spread out in disorderly fashion
• Galician: escarranchar — to spread out in disorderly fashion
• German: sich ausbreiten — to spread out in disorderly fashion
• Māori: pūkoni — to spread out in disorderly fashion
• Portuguese: espalhar — to spread out in disorderly fashion
• Russian: раски́дываться (raskídyvatʹsja) — to spread out in disorderly fashion
• Russian: раски́нуться (raskínutʹsja) — to spread out in disorderly fashion
• Russian: простира́ться (prostirátʹsja) — to spread out in disorderly fashion
• Russian: простере́ться (prosterétʹsja) — to spread out in disorderly fashion
• Russian: растя́гиваться (rastjágivatʹsja) — to spread out in disorderly fashion
• Russian: растяну́ться (rastjanútʹsja) — to spread out in disorderly fashion
• Spanish: desparramarse — to spread out in disorderly fashion
• Ukrainian: розкидатися (rozkydatysja) — to spread out in disorderly fashion
• Ukrainian: розпростертися (rozprostertysja) — to spread out in disorderly fashion
• Ukrainian: розтягтися (roztjahtysja) — to spread out in disorderly fashion