splay

Speech parts

1. splay - Noun

2. splay - Adjective

3. splay - Verb

4. splay - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

To display; to spread.

To dislocate, as a shoulder bone.

To spay; to castrate.

To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc.

Displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly; as, splay shoulders.

A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larged at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

slip rotate dislocate luxate open ungainly turn-out spread rise extensive pitch broad expand extend exclude
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Antonyms

garner concentration flood cluster swamp bunch
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Hypernyms

bevel move open turn cant spread

Phrases with the word

splay-toothed whale

Anagrams

palsy pylas spyal plays

Examples

dislocate joints Source: Internet

the artificial hip joint luxated and had to be put back surgically Source: Internet

These birds can splay out their toes Source: Internet

ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees Source: Internet

He splayed his huge hands over the table Source: Internet

splay knees Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

splatting splatty Splawn splay tree splay-footed splay-legged