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Splay

noun
/spleɪ/
Word Frequency: 0.2

Definitions

1.nounA slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larger at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them.
2.verbTo spread; spread out.
3.verbTo dislocate, as a shoulder bone.
4.verbTo turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window etc.
5.verbTo rearrange (a splay tree) so that a desired element is placed at the root.
6.verbTo spay; to castrate.
7.adjectiveSpread out; turned outward.
"to sit splay-legged"
8.adjectiveFlat and ungainly.
"splay shoulders"

Synonyms

broadendisplayspreadspread outwidendislocateslantslopeturn outslipsplayfootedsplayfoot

Rhymes With

conveydisplaydismaysobriquetdisarrayallaygaydecay
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