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Spread-eagle meaning in English

Meaning of Spread-eagle in English

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Spread-eagle

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Verb

1. spread-eagle

stretch out completely

Example Sentences:
'They spread-eagled him across the floor'

2. spread-eagle

stretch over

Example Sentences:
'His residences spread-eagle the entire county'

3. spread-eagle

execute a spread eagle on skates, with arms and legs stretched out

4. spread-eagle

stand with arms and legs spread out

5. rout, spread-eagle, spreadeagle

defeat disastrously

Adjective

6. spread-eagle

with arms and legs stretched out and apart

Example Sentences:
'lay spread-eagle on the floor'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Spread-eagle

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noun
1. 
the representation of an eagle with outstretched wings, used as an emblem of the US
2. 
an acrobatic skating figure
adjective also: spread-eagled, spreadeagled
1. 
lying or standing with arms and legs outstretched
verb
2. 
to assume or cause to assume the shape of a spread eagle
3. (intransitive) skating
to execute a spread eagle

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Spread-eagle

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1. 
the figure of an eagle with wings and legs spread, used as an emblem of the U.S.
2. 
something suggesting this, as an acrobatic figure in fancy skating
adjective
1. 
having the figure of an eagle with wings and legs spread
2.  US, Informal
boastful or jingoistic about the U.S.
verb transitiveWord forms: ˈspread-ˌeagled or ˈspread-ˌeagling
3. 
to stretch out in the form of a spread eagle, as for a flogging
verb intransitive
4. 
to perform a spread eagle
see also spread eagle (sense 2)

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.


Spread-eagle

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adj.
1. Positioned with the arms and legs stretched out.
2. Informal Full of patriotic or jingoistic rhetoric.
v. spread-ea·gled, spread-ea·gling, spread-ea·gles
v.tr.
To place in a spread-eagle position, especially as a means of punishment.
v.intr.
1. To assume a spread-eagle position.
2. To make a grandiloquent, patriotic speech.

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