spread-eagle

动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To put into a spread-eagle position, with arms and legs extended and spread. transitive
  2. To put one's body in a spread eagle. intransitive
形容词 adj.
  1. Lying with arms and legs outstretched and separated.
  2. Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; bombastic. US,dated
    — 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 […]

词形变化

more spread-eagle comparative most spread-eagle superlative spread-eagles present,singular,third-person spread-eagling participle,present spread-eagled participle,past spread-eagled past

词汇关系

衍生词
spreadeagleism

词源

词源 1
From spread eagle (noun).
词源 2
From spread eagle (noun).
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