Related Words for sprawl

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suburbanization
xxxx/x
Noun
suburbia
x/xx
Noun
encroachment
x/x
Noun
urban
/x
Name, Adjective
suburban
x/x
Adjective
megalopolis
xx/xx
Noun
urbanism
/xx
Noun
expanse
x/
Noun
densification
xxx/x
Noun
congestion
x/x
Noun
crowding
/x
Noun
smothering
/xx
Noun
urbanization
xxx/x
Noun
blight
/
Noun
zoning
/x
Noun
suffocating
/xxx
Adjective
density
/xx
Noun
land
/
Noun
rampant
/x
Adjective
overcrowding
/xxx
Noun
pollution
x/x
Noun
monoculture
xxxx
Noun
farmland
/x
Noun
metropolitan
xx/xx
Name
agglomeration
xxx/x
Noun
dense
/
Adjective
city
/x
Noun
gentrification
xxx/x
Noun
urbanisation
/xx/x
Noun
squalor
/x
Noun
wasteland
/x
Noun
gridlock
/x
Noun
splay
x
Noun
spread
/
Noun
straddle
/x
Noun
outspread
//
Adjective
stretch out
/x
Phrase, Verb
overspread
/x/
Verb
scarecrow
/x
Noun
stride
/
Noun
slouch
/
Noun
spread out
//
Phrase, Verb, Adjective
open
/x
Adjective
spill
/
Noun
sprout
/
Noun
branch out
//
Phrase, Verb
prowl
/
Noun
spend
/
Verb
prostrate
/x
Adjective
weep
/
Verb
fan out
//
Phrase, Verb
writhe
/
Noun
spaghetti
x/x
Noun
plop down
//
Phrase, Verb
drape
/
Noun
distribute
x/x
Verb
spring
/
Noun
squat
/
Adjective
spree
/
Noun
spindle
/x
Noun
scatter
/x
Noun
scrawl
/
Noun
lounge
/
Noun
put forth
//
Phrase, Verb
spread like wildfire
///xx
Phrase, Verb
splatter
/x
Noun
plank
/
Noun
spatter
/x
Noun
swathe
/
Noun
struggle
/x
Noun
stoop
/
Noun
slop
/
Noun
slump
/
Noun
wriggle
/x
Noun
wallow
/x
Noun
recline
x/
Verb
spawn
/
Noun
lie around
/x/
Phrase, Verb
welter
/x
Noun
splice
/
Noun
lie down
//
Phrase, Verb
limb
/
Noun
reach
/
Noun
shag
/
Noun
stretch
/
Noun
shed
/
Verb
open out
/x/
Phrase, Verb
widen
/x
Verb
propagate
/xx
Verb
lean
/
Adjective
swim
/
Noun
disinvestment
xx/x
Noun
smog
/
Noun
freeways
/x
Noun
inequity
x/xx
Noun
curbing
/x
Verb
malls
/
Noun
unplanned
x/
Adjective
shacks
/
Noun
engulfed
x/
Verb
ungainly
x/x
Adjective
unchecked
x/
Adjective
untidy
x/x
Adjective
containment
x/x
Noun
undignified
x/xx
Adjective
antidote
/xx
Noun
slums
/
Noun
formless
/x
Adjective
discourage
x/x
Verb
unsightly
x/x
Adjective
uncontrolled
xx/
Adjective
huts
/
Noun
impacts
x/
Noun
abolitionist
xx/xx
Noun, Adjective
abortion
x/x
Noun
affluence
/xx
Noun
anticlerical
xx/xx
Adjective, Noun
anticommunist
xx/xx
Adjective, Noun
antipoverty
xx/xx
Adjective
antislavery
xx/xx
Adjective
area
/xx
Noun
averaging
/xx
Noun
backwater
/xx
Noun, Verb
buildup
/x
Noun
busing
/x
Noun
communities
x/xx
Noun
conglomeration
xxx/x
Noun
decentralization
xxxx/x
Noun
deforestation
xxx/x
Noun
disarray
xx/
Noun, Verb
disorganization
xxxx/x
Noun
dispersal
x/x
Noun
dispersion
x/x
Noun
disruption
x/x
Noun
districts
/x
Noun
electrification
xxxx/x
Noun
exodus
/xx
Noun, Verb
expanding
x/x
Verb
expansion
x/x
Noun
extending
x/x
Verb
extension
x/x
Noun
fabric
/x
Noun, Verb
growth
/
Noun
heaps
/
Noun, Adverb
illiteracy
x/xxx
Noun
phasing
/x
Noun
plating
/x
Noun
pornography
x/xx
Noun
prosperity
x/xx
Noun
redevelopment
xx/xx
Noun
skyscraper
/xx
Noun
spanning
/x
Noun
sparsity
/xx
Noun
tangle
/x
Noun, Verb
tariff
/x
Noun, Verb
temperance
/xx
Noun
tissue
/x
Noun, Verb
gloss
/
Noun, Verb
milestone
/x
Noun, Verb
stonewall
/x
Name, Verb, Adjective
die
/
Verb, Noun
fall
/
Verb, Noun
off
/
Adverb, Adjective, Verb, Noun
daylight
/x
Noun, Verb
blow
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
save
/
Verb, Noun
get
/
Verb, Noun
bundle
/x
Noun, Verb
tell
/
Verb, Noun
breakeven
/xx
Verb, Noun, Adjective
stovepipe
/x
Noun, Verb