1. splayed - Adjective
2. splayed - Verb
splayed (not comparable)
(architecture) Of a door or a window: bevelled so as to be larger on one side of the wall than on the other.
a splayed door frame
splayed
simple past and past participle of splay
As one, they leap, laughing, and that is where we leave them - mouths open, arms spread wide, fingers splayed to take in the whole world, bodies flying high in defiance of gravity, as if they will never fall. Libba Bray
He caught her by the wrist, brought her hand to his bare chest. Splayed her fingers over his heart. It beat against her palm, like a fist punching its way through his sternum. 'Break my heart,' he said. 'Break it in pieces. I give you permission. Cassandra Clare
ALTERNATIVE: * The node to be deleted is first splayed, i.e. brought to the root of the tree and then deleted. Source: Internet
After a couple of lucky bounces, a UMass Lowell midfielder splayed the ball out wide right. Source: Internet
Many Pleistocene drumlin fields are observed to occur in a fan-like distribution. citation The Múlajökull drumlins of Iceland are also arrayed in a splayed fan distribution around an arc of 180°. Source: Internet
The fastest means by which most species can move is a kind of "belly run", where the body moves in a snake-like fashion, limbs splayed out to either side paddling away frantically while the tail whips to and fro. Source: Internet