spread-eagle — قاموس الإنجليزية

صفة

1. Lying with arms and legs outstretched and separated.

2. Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; bombastic.

   الاستعمال

   • استعمال أمريكي
   • قديم الطابع

   أمثلة

   أمثلة إضافية (1)

   Our former townsman, Mr. G. F. Train, has recently made a tremendous spread-eagle speech in England, upon the occasion of the reopening of trade between Liverpool and New Zealand […]

   But Mr. Lloyd is not a spread-eagle patriot, or much given to political partisanship.

   The firm did a large and lucrative business from the start, the orders from spread-eagle orators often taxing the full capacity of its works.

فعل

1. To put into a spread-eagle position, with arms and legs extended and spread.

   الاستعمال

   • متعدٍ

2. To put one's body in a spread eagle.

   الاستعمال

   • لازم

صفة

1. with arms and legs stretched out and apart

   أمثلة

   lay spread-eagle on the floor

فعل

1. stretch out completely

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   stretchextend

   أمثلة

   They spread-eagled him across the floor

2. stretch over

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   rangestraddle

   أمثلة

   His residences spread-eagle the entire county

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

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   figure skate

4. stand with arms and legs spread out

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   sprawl

5. defeat disastrously

   مرادفات

   spreadeaglerout

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   beatbeat outcrushshelltrouncevanquish