Synonyms of the word ( spread-eagle, spreadeagle )

spread-eagle

• adj. Lying with arms and legs outstretched and separated.
• adj. (colloquial, humorous) Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; bombastic.
• adv. With arms and legs extended and spread.
• v. (transitive) To put into a spread-eagle position, with arms and legs extended and spread.
• v. (intransitive) To put one's body in a spread eagle.

beat

• n. A stroke; a blow.
• n. A pulsation or throb.
• n. A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is…
• n. A rhythm.
• n. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency.
• n. A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
• n. The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
• n. (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially.
• n. (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
• n. (colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
• n. (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
• n. (archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
• n. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
• n. (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those…
• n. (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
• v. (transitive) To hit; to knock; to pound; to strike.
• v. (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
• v. (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
• v. (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
• v. (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a…
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
• v. (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc…
• v. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
• v. (transitive, Britain, In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price.
• v. (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
• v. To tread, as a path.
• v. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
• v. To be in agitation or doubt.
• v. To make a sound when struck.
• v. (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
• v. To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating…
• v. (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
• adj. (US slang) exhausted.
• adj. dilapidated, beat up.
• adj. (gay slang) fabulous.
• adj. (slang) boring.
• adj. (slang, of a person) ugly.
• n. A beatnik.

crush

• n. A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
• n. Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
• n. Crowd which produces uncomfortable pressure.
• n. A violent crowding.
• n. A crowd control barrier.
• n. An infatuation or affection for.
• n. The human object of such infatuation or affection.
• n. A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
• n. A party, festive function.
• n. (Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season that this process takes…
• v. To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity…
• v. To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute.
• v. To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.
• v. To oppress or burden grievously.
• v. To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight…
• v. To feel infatuation with or unrequited love for.
• v. (sports) to defeat emphatically.

extend

• v. (intransitive) To increase in extent.
• v. (intransitive) To possess a certain extent.
• v. (transitive) To cause to increase in extent.
• v. (transitive) To cause to last for a longer period of time.
• v. (transitive) To straighten (a limb).
• v. To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.
• v. To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.
• v. (Britain, law) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ…
• v. (object-oriented programming) Of a class: to be an extension or subtype of, or to be based on, a prototype…

extended

• v. simple past tense and past participle of extend.
• adj. Longer in length or extension; elongated.
• adj. Stretched out or pulled out; expanded.
• adj. Lasting longer; protracted.
• adj. Having a large scope or range; extensive.
• adj. (of a typeface) Wider than usual.

range

• n. A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
• n. A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many hotplates.
• n. Selection, array.
• n. An area for practicing shooting at targets.
• n. An area for military training or equipment testing.
• n. The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.
• n. Maximum distance of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, fuel supply, etc.).
• n. An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
• n. Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.
• n. (mathematics) The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
• n. (statistics) The length of the smallest interval which contains all the data in a sample; the difference…
• n. (sports, baseball) The defensive area that a player can cover.
• n. (music) The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
• n. (ecology) The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
• n. (programming) A sequential list of iterators that are specified by a beginning and ending iterator.
• n. An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
• n. (obsolete) The step of a ladder; a rung.
• n. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A bolting sieve to sift meal.
• n. A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
• n. (US, historical) In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian…
• n. The scope of something, the extent which something covers or includes.
• n. The variety of roles that an actor can play in a satisfactory way.
• v. (intransitive) To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander.
• v. (transitive) To rove over or through.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to,…
• v. (transitive) To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition)…
• v. (intransitive, mathematics, computing, followed by over) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the…
• v. (transitive) To classify.
• v. (intransitive) To form a line or a row.
• v. (intransitive) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
• v. (transitive) To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose…
• v. (transitive) To place among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; usually, reflexively…
• v. (biology) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
• v. To separate into parts; to sift.
• v. To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.
• v. (baseball) Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play.

rout

• v. (intransitive) To make a noise; roar; bellow; snort.
• v. (intransitive) To snore; snore loudly.
• v. (intransitive) To belch.
• v. (intransitive) To howl as the wind; make a roaring noise.
• n. A noise; a loud noise; a bellowing; a shouting; clamor; an uproar; disturbance; tumult.
• n. Snoring.
• v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To beat; strike; assail with blows.
• n. (now chiefly dialectal) A violent movement; a great or violent stir; a heavy blow; a stunning blow; a…
• n. A troop or group, especially of a traveling company or throng.
• n. A disorderly and tumultuous crowd; a mob; hence, the rabble; the herd of common people.
• n. The state of being disorganized and thrown into confusion.
• n. The act of defeating and breaking up an army or another opponent.
• n. (law) A disturbance of the peace by persons assembled together with the intent to do a thing which, if…
• n. A fashionable assembly, or large evening party.
• v. (transitive) To defeat completely, forcing into disorderly retreat.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To assemble in a crowd, whether orderly or disorderly; to collect in company.
• v. To search or root in the ground, like a pig.
• v. To scoop out with a gouge or other tool; to furrow.
• v. To use a router in woodworking.

shell

• n. A hard external covering of an animal.
• n. The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
• n. One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
• n. The hard external covering of various plant seed forms.
• n. The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
• n. The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
• n. A hollow usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon…
• n. The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
• n. Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in,…
• n. A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that…
• n. A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
• n. (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
• n. (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims…
• n. An engraved copper roller used in print works.
• n. (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
• n. (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
• n. (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper;…
• n. (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs…
• n. (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
• n. An emaciated person.
• n. A psychological barrier to social interaction.
• n. (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
• n. A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
• n. (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
• v. To remove the outer covering or shell of something. See sheller.
• v. To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
• v. (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
• v. (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
• v. (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
• v. (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
• v. To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
• v. (topology) To form a shelling.

sprawl

• v. To sit with the limbs spread out.
• v. To spread out in a disorderly fashion; to straggle.
• n. An ungainly sprawling posture.
• n. A straggling, haphazard growth, especially of housing on the edge of a city.

spreadeagle

• v. Alternative spelling of spread-eagle.

straddle

• v. To sit or stand with a leg on each side of something. To sit astride.
• v. To be on both sides of something. To have parts that are in different places, regions, etc.
• v. To consider or favor two apparently opposite sides. To be noncommittal.
• v. To form a disorderly sprawl. To spread out irregularly.
• v. (military) To fire successive artillery shots in front of and behind of a target, especially in order…
• v. (poker) To place a voluntary raise prior to receiving cards (only by the first player after the blinds).
• v. (intransitive) To stand with the ends staggered; said of the spokes of a wagon wheel where they join the…
• v. (economy) to execute a commodities market spread.
• n. A posture in which one straddles something.
• n. (finance) An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with put and call options on same security…
• n. (poker) A voluntary raise made prior to receiving cards by the first player after the blinds.

stretch

• v. (transitive) To lengthen by pulling.
• v. (intransitive) To lengthen when pulled.
• v. (transitive) To pull tight.
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
• v. (intransitive) To extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point.
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity…
• v. (intransitive) To extend to a limit point.
• v. (transitive) To increase.
• v. (obsolete, colloquial) To stretch the truth; to exaggerate.
• v. (nautical) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
• n. An act of stretching.
• n. The ability to lengthen when pulled.
• n. A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief.
• n. A segment of a journey or route.
• n. A segment or length of material.
• n. (baseball) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead…
• n. (baseball) A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman…
• n. A length of time.
• n. (informal) Term of address for a tall person.
• n. (Ireland, idiomatic) extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared…

trounce

• v. (transitive) to win against (someone) by a wide margin; to beat thoroughly, to defeat heavily.
• v. (transitive) to punish.
• v. (transitive) to beat severely; thrash.

vanquish

• v. To defeat, to overcome.

spreadeagle

• v. Alternative spelling of spread-eagle.

beat

• n. A stroke; a blow.
• n. A pulsation or throb.
• n. A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is…
• n. A rhythm.
• n. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency.
• n. A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
• n. The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
• n. (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially.
• n. (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
• n. (colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
• n. (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
• n. (archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
• n. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
• n. (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those…
• n. (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
• v. (transitive) To hit; to knock; to pound; to strike.
• v. (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
• v. (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
• v. (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
• v. (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a…
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
• v. (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc…
• v. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
• v. (transitive, Britain, In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price.
• v. (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
• v. To tread, as a path.
• v. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
• v. To be in agitation or doubt.
• v. To make a sound when struck.
• v. (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
• v. To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating…
• v. (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
• adj. (US slang) exhausted.
• adj. dilapidated, beat up.
• adj. (gay slang) fabulous.
• adj. (slang) boring.
• adj. (slang, of a person) ugly.
• n. A beatnik.

crush

• n. A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
• n. Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
• n. Crowd which produces uncomfortable pressure.
• n. A violent crowding.
• n. A crowd control barrier.
• n. An infatuation or affection for.
• n. The human object of such infatuation or affection.
• n. A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
• n. A party, festive function.
• n. (Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season that this process takes…
• v. To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity…
• v. To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute.
• v. To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.
• v. To oppress or burden grievously.
• v. To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight…
• v. To feel infatuation with or unrequited love for.
• v. (sports) to defeat emphatically.

rout

• v. (intransitive) To make a noise; roar; bellow; snort.
• v. (intransitive) To snore; snore loudly.
• v. (intransitive) To belch.
• v. (intransitive) To howl as the wind; make a roaring noise.
• n. A noise; a loud noise; a bellowing; a shouting; clamor; an uproar; disturbance; tumult.
• n. Snoring.
• v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To beat; strike; assail with blows.
• n. (now chiefly dialectal) A violent movement; a great or violent stir; a heavy blow; a stunning blow; a…
• n. A troop or group, especially of a traveling company or throng.
• n. A disorderly and tumultuous crowd; a mob; hence, the rabble; the herd of common people.
• n. The state of being disorganized and thrown into confusion.
• n. The act of defeating and breaking up an army or another opponent.
• n. (law) A disturbance of the peace by persons assembled together with the intent to do a thing which, if…
• n. A fashionable assembly, or large evening party.
• v. (transitive) To defeat completely, forcing into disorderly retreat.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To assemble in a crowd, whether orderly or disorderly; to collect in company.
• v. To search or root in the ground, like a pig.
• v. To scoop out with a gouge or other tool; to furrow.
• v. To use a router in woodworking.

shell

• n. A hard external covering of an animal.
• n. The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
• n. One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
• n. The hard external covering of various plant seed forms.
• n. The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
• n. The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
• n. A hollow usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon…
• n. The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
• n. Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in,…
• n. A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that…
• n. A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
• n. (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
• n. (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims…
• n. An engraved copper roller used in print works.
• n. (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
• n. (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
• n. (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper;…
• n. (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs…
• n. (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
• n. An emaciated person.
• n. A psychological barrier to social interaction.
• n. (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
• n. A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
• n. (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
• v. To remove the outer covering or shell of something. See sheller.
• v. To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
• v. (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
• v. (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
• v. (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
• v. (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
• v. To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
• v. (topology) To form a shelling.

spread-eagle

• adj. Lying with arms and legs outstretched and separated.
• adj. (colloquial, humorous) Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; bombastic.
• adv. With arms and legs extended and spread.
• v. (transitive) To put into a spread-eagle position, with arms and legs extended and spread.
• v. (intransitive) To put one's body in a spread eagle.

trounce

• v. (transitive) to win against (someone) by a wide margin; to beat thoroughly, to defeat heavily.
• v. (transitive) to punish.
• v. (transitive) to beat severely; thrash.

vanquish

• v. To defeat, to overcome.