| sprain | (verb) twist suddenly so as to sprain | Synonyms: rick, turn, twist, wrench, wrick |
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| sprawl | (verb) sit or lie with one's limbs spread out | - |
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| (verb) go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way | Synonyms: straggle |
| spray | (verb) scatter in a mass or jet of droplets | - |
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| (verb) be discharged in sprays of liquid | - |
| (verb) cover by spraying with a liquid | - |
| spread | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate |
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| (verb) become widely known and passed on | Synonyms: circulate, go around |
| (verb) distribute or disperse widely | Synonyms: distribute |
| (verb) spread out or open from a closed or folded state | Synonyms: open, spread out, unfold |
| (verb) become distributed or widespread | Synonyms: propagate |
| (verb) cover by spreading something over | - |
| (verb) distribute over a surface in a layer | - |
| (verb) strew or distribute over an area | Synonyms: scatter, spread out |
| (verb) move outward | Synonyms: diffuse, fan out, spread out |
| (verb) spread across or over | Synonyms: overspread |
| spreadeagle | (verb) defeat disastrously | Synonyms: rout, spread-eagle |
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| spree | (verb) engage without restraint in an activity and indulge, as when shopping | - |
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| spring | (verb) develop suddenly | - |
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| (verb) produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly | - |
| (verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, bound, rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, take a hop |
| (verb) move forward by leaps and bounds | Synonyms: bound, jump, leap |
| (verb) develop into a distinctive entity | Synonyms: form, take form, take shape |
| sprinkle | (verb) scatter with liquid; wet lightly | Synonyms: besprinkle, sparge |
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| (verb) cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force | Synonyms: splash, splosh |
| (verb) distribute loosely | Synonyms: disperse, dot, dust, scatter |
| (verb) rain gently | Synonyms: patter, pitter-patter, spatter, spit |
| sprint | (verb) run very fast, usually for a short distance | - |
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| spritz | (verb) cover (a location) wholly or partially by squirting a liquid onto it | - |
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| (verb) eject (a liquid) quickly | - |
| sprout | (verb) put forth and grow sprouts or shoots | Synonyms: stock |
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| (verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate | Synonyms: bourgeon, burgeon forth, germinate, pullulate, shoot, spud |
| spruce | (verb) dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion | Synonyms: slick up, smarten up, spruce up |
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| (verb) make neat, smart, or trim | Synonyms: slick up, smarten up, spiff up, spruce up, titivate, tittivate |