spread-eagle

Adjective

• with arms and legs stretched out and apart
  • lay spread-eagle on the floor
    

Verb

• defeat disastrously

• stand with arms and legs spread out

• execute a spread eagle on skates, with arms and legs stretched out

• stretch over
  • His residences spread-eagle the entire county
    

• stretch out completely
  • They spread-eagled him across the floor
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  spreadeagle , rout