Przymiotnik
Lying with arms and legs outstretched and separated.
Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; bombastic.
Użycie- użycie amerykańskie
- przestarzałe
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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.
Czasownik
To put into a spread-eagle position, with arms and legs extended and spread.
Użycie- przechodnie
To put one's body in a spread eagle.
Użycie- nieprzechodnie
Przymiotnik
with arms and legs stretched out and apart
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lay spread-eagle on the floor
Czasownik
stretch out completely
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They spread-eagled him across the floor
stretch over
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His residences spread-eagle the entire county
execute a spread eagle on skates, with arms and legs stretched out
- Terminy szersze
stand with arms and legs spread out
- Terminy szersze
defeat disastrously
- Synonimy