spread-eagle — Dizionario inglese

Aggettivo

1. Lying with arms and legs outstretched and separated.

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

   Uso

   • uso statunitense
   • datato

   Esempi

   Altri esempi (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.

Verbo

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

   Uso

   • transitivo

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

   Uso

   • intransitivo

Aggettivo

1. with arms and legs stretched out and apart

   Esempi

   lay spread-eagle on the floor

Verbo

1. stretch out completely

   Termini più generali

   stretchextend

   Esempi

   They spread-eagled him across the floor

2. stretch over

   Termini più generali

   rangestraddle

   Esempi

   His residences spread-eagle the entire county

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

   Termini più generali

   figure skate

4. stand with arms and legs spread out

   Termini più generali

   sprawl

5. defeat disastrously

   Sinonimi

   spreadeaglerout

   Termini più generali

   beatbeat outcrushshelltrouncevanquish