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splay

/spleɪ/
noun

  1. A 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.

verb

  1. To spread; spread out.

    Similar: broaden, display, spread, spread out, widen

  2. To dislocate, as a shoulder bone.

    Similar: dislocate

  3. To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window etc.

    Similar: slant, slope

Synonymsbroaden, display, spread, spread out, widen, dislocate
adjective

  1. Spread out; turned outward.

    "to sit splay-legged"

  2. Flat and ungainly.

    "splay shoulders"

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