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Adjective: spreadeagled
Usage:
  1. With arms and legs stretched out and apart
    - spread-eagle
Verb: spread-eagle  'spred `eegul
  1. Stand with arms and legs spread out
     
  2. Defeat disastrously
    - spreadeagle, rout
     
  3. Stretch over
    "His residences spread-eagle the entire county"
     
  4. Stretch out completely
    "They spread-eagled him across the floor"
     
  5. Execute a spread eagle on skates, with arms and legs stretched out

See also: extended

Type of: beat, beat out, crush, extend, figure skate, range, shell, sprawl, straddle, stretch, trounce, vanquish

Encyclopedia: Spread-eagle