Definition von „asprawl“ auf Englisch

adjective

1. Sprawling; covered or filled (with something sprawling).

   • 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, New York and London: Street & Smith, Part 2, Chapter 4, p. 129, […] he saw […] a man lying flat upon his face upon the ground, with his arms and legs all asprawl.
   • 1984, J. P. Donleavy, De Alfonce Tennis, New York: Dutton / Seymour Lawrence, Part 5, p. 86, a vast drawing room asprawl with immense sofas, high backed chairs, two massive refectory tables and four chimney pieces

preposition

1. Sprawling over or across.