Adjective spread eagle has 1 sense
- spread-eagle - with arms and legs stretched out and apart; "lay spread-eagle on the floor"
Antonym: unextended (indirect, via extended)
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Noun spread eagle has 2 senses
- spread eagle - an emblem (an eagle with wings and legs spread) on the obverse of the Great Seal of the United States
--1 is a kind of emblem, allegory
- spread eagle - a skating figure executed with the skates heel to heel in a straight line
--2 is a kind of figure
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Verb spread eagle has 5 senses
- spread-eagle - stretch out completely; "They spread-eagled him across the floor"
--1 is one way to stretch, extend
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
- spread-eagle - stretch over; "His residences spread-eagle the entire county"
--2 is one way to range, straddle
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
- spread-eagle - execute a spread eagleon skates, with arms and legs stretched out
--3 is one way to figure skate
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
- spread-eagle - stand with arms and legs spread out
--4 is one way to sprawl
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
- spread-eagle, spreadeagle, rout - defeat disastrously
--5 is one way to beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish
Sample sentence:
The fighter managed to spread-eagle his opponent
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