Vocabulary
Sprawl
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
sit, lie, or fall with one’s arms and legs spread out in an ungainly way.
Urdu meaning
بے ڈھنگے انداز سے جسم کا پھیلنا
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- The government must invest in drainage and sewerage systems in its cities, where unplanned sprawl has outpaced infrastructure.
- But contemporary forms of capitalist agriculture, urban sprawl in the form of real estate-isation as well as newer colonial modalities like mineral, land, forest and water grabs in `dry` rural zones have made the class war even more acute.
- Urban flooding: Pakistan`s haphazardly growing urban sprawl has become particularly vulnerable to new rainfall patterns.
- Urban sprawl, especially in Sindh, has further buried the land beneath concrete, making drainage all but impossible.
- By 2050, almost 70pc or close to seven billion people will be living in an urban environment: either in new towns or in the sprawl of existing cities.
Synonyms
stretch out, lounge, loll, lie, lie down, lie back, recline, drape oneself, be recumbent
Curator example
“the door shot open, sending him sprawling across the pavement”
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