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Definition: Spread-eagle |
Spread-eagleAdjective1. With arms and legs stretched out and apart; "lay spread-eagle on the floor". Verb1. Stretch out completely; "They spread-eagled him across the floor". 2. Stretch over; "His residences spread-eagle the entire county". 3. Execute a spread eagle, with arms and legs stretched out. 4. Stand with arms and legs spread out. 5. Defeat disastrously. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "spread-eagle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1868. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Spread-eagle (To). To fly away like a spread-eagle; to beat. (Sporting term.) "You'll spread-eagle all the [other] cattle in a brace of shakes."- Ouida: Under Two Flags, chap. ix. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: Spread-eagleSynonyms: rout (v), spreadeagle (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Boasting | Adjective: boasting; Verb: magniloquent, flaming, Thrasonic, stilted, gasconading, braggart, boastful, pretentious, soi-disant; vainglorious; (conceited); highfalutin, highfaluting; spread-eagle. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Spread-eagle |
| Specialty definitions using "spread-eagle": Spread-eagle Oratory. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "spread-eagle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | äŒ æ'èéč°. (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | tĂșlzĂł soviniszta, bĂ©kaszerƱen elterpeszkedĆ. (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | íŽ ë ì늏. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ead-eaglespray khoĂĄc lĂĄc yĂȘu nÆ°á»c rĂčm beng huĂȘnh hoang khoĂĄc lĂĄc vá» sá»± Æ°u viá»t của nÆ°á»c Má»č, cĂł hĂŹnh con ÄáșĄi bĂ ng giang cĂĄnh huĂȘnh hoang. (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Spread-eagle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: spreadeagle. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "spread-eagle" (pronounced 'Spread"-ea`gle'): Fingle-fangle, Gier-eagle, Pentangle, Porbeagle, Probeagle, Quadrangle, Recipiangle, Semiangle, Septangle, Sexangle, Surcingle, triangle, Wide-angle. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-e-e-g-l-p-r-s" | |
-2 letters: repledges. | |
-3 letters: degrease, gapeseed, laagered, peerages, pleaders, pledgees, pledgers, presaged, rapeseed, relapsed, released, repealed, repleads, repledge, resealed. | |
-4 letters: alegars, dealers, degrees, dragees, earlaps, elapsed, galeres, geladas, gelders, grasped, greased, laagers, lagered, leaders, leapers, ledgers, parades, pearled, pedlars, pedlers, peelers, peerage, pelages, pleader, pleased, pleaser, pledgee, pledger, pledges, preaged, presage, presale, redlegs, regaled, regales. | |
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