spread-eagled

spread-ea·gle

(sprĕd′ē′gəl)

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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Translations

spread-eagled

[spredˈiːgld] ADJ → a pata tendida

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

spread-eagled

[ˌsprɛdˈiːgld] adj to be or lie spread-eagled → essere disteso/a a gambe e braccia aperte

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