spread-eagle — Английский словарь

Прилагательное

1. Lying with arms and legs outstretched and separated.

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

   Употребление

   • употребление в США
   • устаревающее

   Примеры

   Другие примеры (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.

Глагол

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

   Употребление

   • переходный глагол

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

   Употребление

   • непереходный глагол

Прилагательное

1. with arms and legs stretched out and apart

   Примеры

   lay spread-eagle on the floor

Глагол

1. stretch out completely

   Более общие понятия

   stretchextend

   Примеры

   They spread-eagled him across the floor

2. stretch over

   Более общие понятия

   rangestraddle

   Примеры

   His residences spread-eagle the entire county

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

   Более общие понятия

   figure skate

4. stand with arms and legs spread out

   Более общие понятия

   sprawl

5. defeat disastrously

   Синонимы

   spreadeaglerout

   Более общие понятия

   beatbeat outcrushshelltrouncevanquish