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   splay

   /spleɪ/

   verb

   • 1. thrust or spread (things, especially limbs or fingers) out and apart: "her hands were splayed across his broad shoulders"
   • ▪ (especially of limbs or fingers) be thrust or spread out and apart: "his legs splayed out in front of him"
   • ▪ become wider or more separated: "the river splayed out, deepening to become an estuary"
   • ▪ construct (a window, doorway, or other aperture) so that it is wider at one side of the wall than the other: "in the thick walls necessitated by a vaulted basilica, it had been the custom to splay the door openings"

   noun

   • 1. a tapered widening of a road at an intersection to increase visibility.
   • 2. a surface making an oblique angle with another, especially a splayed window or other aperture.
   • ▪ the degree of bevel or slant of a surface.
   • 3. a splayed window aperture or other opening.

   adjective

   • 1. turned outward or widened: "the girls were sitting splay-legged"

   Word Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘unfold to view, display’): shortening of the verb display.

   Scrabble Points: 10

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