Sprawl
WordNet
noun
(1) An ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about
(2) An aggregation or continuous network of urban communities
verb
(3) Sit or lie with one's limbs spread out
(4) Go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way
"Branches straggling out quite far"
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Quotations
- 2008 January 19, Mo Rocca, Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!, National Public Radio
- The thirty-two thousand square-foot villa, set in the middle of a sprawling quarter-acre lot, was advertised as authentic Italian.