sprawl

  1. Verb.  To sit with the limbs spread out.
  2. Verb.  To spread out in a disorderly fashion; to straggle.
  3. Noun.  An ungainly sprawling posture.
  4. Noun.  A straggling, haphazard growth, especially of housing on the edge of a city.

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