Sekirov Dictionary

sprawl

/spɹɔːl/

noun 3
verb 3
forms 5

noun3

An ungainly sprawling posture.
•
A straggling, haphazard growth, especially of housing on the edge of a city.
- Many of our past difficulties in dealing with sprawl come from some very mistaken if widely held assumptions. One is that sprawl is due to too many people and not enough land. — 1959
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.

verb3

•
To sit with the limbs spread out.
- There were pillows on the floor, a few chairs, and four or five students sprawled here and there watching a football game. — 1979
•
To spread out in a disorderly fashion; to straggle.
- A shrewd blow, it caught him off balance, and after one ineffectual stagger he sprawled backward and lay for a moment staring up in blank surprise — 1914
To scoot the legs backwards, so as to land on the upper back of an opponent attempting a takedown.

forms

sprawled · sprawling · sprawleth · sprawls · sprawlest

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