spread-eagle

adj.

1. Positioned with the arms and legs stretched out.
2. Informal. Full of patriotic or jingoistic rhetoric.

v., -gled, -gling, -gles.

v.tr.
To place in a spread-eagle position, especially as a means of punishment.

v.intr.

1. To assume a spread-eagle position.
2. To make a grandiloquent, patriotic speech.

verb

To sit or lie with the limbs spread out awkwardly: drape, loll, sprawl, straddle. See posture.

v. (usually be spread-eagled) stretch (someone) out with their arms and legs extended: he lay spread-eagled in the road.

n. spread eagle

an emblematic representation of an eagle with its legs and wings extended.

adj.

1. stretched out with one's arms and legs extended: prisoners are chained to their beds, spread-eagle, for days at a time.

2. loudly or aggressively patriotic about the United States: spread-eagle oratory.

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The verb has 5 meanings:

Meaning #1: stretch out completely

Meaning #2: stretch over

Meaning #3: execute a spread eagle, with arms and legs stretched out

Meaning #4: stand with arms and legs spread out

Meaning #5: defeat disastrously
  Synonyms: spreadeagle, rout

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The adjective spread-eagle has one meaning:

Meaning #1: with arms and legs stretched out and apart

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - højtravende, chauvinistisk, bombastisk, ekstremt national
v. tr. - lægge sig med armene spredt ud
v. intr. - tale bombastisk, lægge sig/falde med armene spredt ud

Nederlands (Dutch)
adelaar met gespreide vleugels (afbeelding), iemand met armen en benen gespreid

Français (French)
adj. - qui a la forme d'un oiseau aux ailes déployées, allongé face à terre avec les bras et les jambes étendues, (US) vantard/emphatique (souvent dans l'expression de sentiments nationalistes)
v. tr. - étendre (qch) à la manière d'un aigle éployé
v. intr. - exécuter des figures acrobatiques (d'un oiseau aux ailes déployées), faire un discours pompeux/patriotique

Deutsch (German)
v. - an den ausgestreckten Beinen und Armen fesseln
adj. - ausgestreckt

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - ξαπλώνω με ανοιχτά τα πόδια, (κατα)νικώ (κν. ρουμπώνω)
adj. - (καθομ.) στομφώδης, υπερπατριωτικός

Italiano (Italian)
a braccia e gambe aperte

Português (Portuguese)
v. - estar deitado com pernas e braços abertos
adj. - com pernas e braços abertos, nacionalista exacerbado

Русский (Russian)
орел с распростертыми крыльями, говорить напыщенно

Español (Spanish)
adj. - despatarrado, fanfarrón, patriotero
v. tr. - extender los miembros de, desparramar
v. intr. - hacer discursos patrioteros

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - sträcka ut, breda ut, slå omkull, sträcka ut sig, spreta med armar och ben
adj. - som en fläkt örn, bombastisk, chauvinistisk

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
夸张的, 像张着翅的鹰的, 使四肢展开, 张开四肢

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 誇張的, 像張著翅的鷹的
v. tr. - 使四肢展開
v. intr. - 張開四肢

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 날개를 편 독수리 같은 , 제나 라를 사랑하는, 과장적인
v. tr. - 날개를 편 독수리 같은 형태로 하다, (벌로서) 사지를 벌려서 삭구에 붙들어 매다
v. intr. - (스케이트) 스프레드 이글형으로 지치다, 팔다리를 벌리고 서다, 날개를 편 독수리의 자세를 취하다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 誇張的な

العربيه (Arabic)
‏تمدد باسطا ذراعيه و ساقيه ‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮פרוש-כנפיים, מתנשא, מובס‬
v. tr. - ‮השתרע, פשט איברים, התרברב, קשר בפישוק (כדי להלקות)‬
v. intr. - ‮השתרע, פשט איברים‬

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