splayverb [ I or T ]
uk/spleɪ/us/spleɪ/to spread wide apart:
At one point the dancers flipped onto their backs and splayed their legs.
The petals splay out from the middle of the flower.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Spreading and scattering
- all over the place idiom
- bedaub
- bestrew
- billow
- circulate
- fan out
- go round (somewhere)
- go/do the rounds idiom
- percolate
- radial
- radiate
- slap
- spread
- spread out
- sprinkling
- straggle
- stretch
- strew
- suffuse
- sweep
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