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Sprawls

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sprawl  (sprôl)
v. sprawled, sprawl·ing, sprawls
v.intr.
1. To sit or lie with the body and limbs spread out awkwardly.
2. To spread out in a straggling or disordered fashion: untidy tenements sprawling toward the river.
v.tr.
To cause to spread out in a straggling or disordered fashion.
n.
1. A sprawling position or posture.
2. Haphazard growth or extension outward, especially that resulting from real estate development on the outskirts of a city: urban sprawl.

[Middle English sprawlen, from Old English sprawlian, to writhe; see sper- in Indo-European roots.]

sprawler n.

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But its roomy staircases, passages, and antechambers still remain; and even its painted ceilings, where Allegory, in Roman helmet and celestial linen, sprawls among balustrades and pillars, flowers, clouds, and big-legged boys, and makes the head ache--as would seem to be Allegory's object always, more or less.
 
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