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sprawling

noun

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L328328 on Wikidata ↗

adjective

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L340692 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

adj

  1. That sprawls; that spreads in a disorderly fashion.

    “a sprawling cityscape”

    “We looked over Hoihow, a dirty sprawling city of 250,000 people, many of them living in old two-story buildings made of mud and white plaster, across the narrow Hainan Strait to the Liuchow Peninsula on the mainland.”

noun

  1. The act of one who sprawls.

    “Having feasted our souls with this sublime spectacle, we ministered to the wants of the body by a plentiful breakfast, and about noon we commenced the descent, rendered ludicrous enough by various tumblings and sprawlings on the part of the more inexpert mountaineers.”

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of sprawl