with legs spread out

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• spread out — lie down with your arms and legs apart    When you spread out on the sofa, there s no room for me …   English idioms

• spread — v. & n. v. (past and past part. spread) 1 tr. (often foll. by out) a open or extend the surface of. b cause to cover a larger surface (spread butter on bread). c display to the eye or the mind (the view was spread out before us). 2 intr. (often… …   Useful english dictionary

• spread-eagle — I verb 1. stretch out completely (Freq. 1) They spread eagled him across the floor • Hypernyms: ↑stretch, ↑extend • Verb Frames: Somebody s somebody 2 …   Useful english dictionary

• spread eagle — v. stretch out completely; stand with arms and legs spread out; stretch out a person with his/her arms and legs extended; rout, defeat in disastrous manner, defeat overwhelmingly; make an excessively eloquent patriotic speech …   English contemporary dictionary

• spread-ea|gle — spread eagle, 1. a representation of an eagle with outspread wings, used as an emblem of the United States and certain other countries. 2. a boastful, self assertive person, especially an American with an excess of national or regional pride. 3.… …   Useful english dictionary

• spread-eagle — [spred′ē΄gəl] adj. 1. having the figure of an eagle with wings and legs spread ☆ 2. Informal boastful or jingoistic about the U.S. vt. spread eagled, spread eagling to stretch out in the form of a spread eagle, as for a flogging vi. to perform a… …   English World dictionary

• spread-eagle — lit. splayed eagle, 1570, a heraldic term; the figure is that of the seal of the United States (hence spreadeagleism extravagant laudation of the U.S., 1858). Meaning person secured with arms and legs stretched out (originally to be flogged) is… …   Etymology dictionary

• spread — [[t]spre̱d[/t]] ♦♦ spreads, spreading, spread 1) VERB If you spread something somewhere, you open it out or arrange it over a place or surface, so that all of it can be seen or used easily. [V n prep] She spread a towel on the sand and lay on it …   English dictionary

• spread — 1 /spred/ verb past tense and past participle spread 1 OPEN OR ARRANGE also spread sth out (T) to open something so that it covers a bigger area, or arrange a group of things, so that they cover a flat surface: spread sth on: Let s spread the map …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• spread — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 increase in amount or number of sth ADJECTIVE ▪ good, great, wide ▪ rapid ▪ gradual, slow ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

• spread — spread1 W2S2 [spred] v past tense and past participle spread ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(affect more people/places)¦ 2¦(information/ideas)¦ 3¦(open/arrange)¦ 4¦(throughout an area)¦ 5¦(soft substance)¦ 6¦(arms/fingers etc)¦ 7¦(over time)¦ 8¦(share)¦ …   Dictionary of contemporary English