spread-eagled
Speech parts
1. spread-eagled - Adjective
2. spread-eagled - Verb
Meaning
spread-eagled
simple past and past participle of spread-eagle
spread-eagled (comparative more spread-eagled, superlative most spread-eagled)
In a spread eagle position.
Synonyms
Examples
Archer, a Sydney "outsider" who drew scant favour in the betting, spread-eagled the field and defeated the favourite, and Victorian champion, Mormon by six lengths.
Much later, in the 1960s, it was established that the zone of levelled forest occupied an area of some convert, its shape resembling a gigantic spread-eagled butterfly with a "wingspan" of convert and a "body length" of convert.