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straddledverbpast tense of straddle to be in or move into a seated or standing position with your legs on either side of (something)She straddled the horse and waited for her riding partner to mount. bestrodelounged, slouched, sprawled, squattedperchedset(chiefly dialect)sat arose, got up, rose, stood to be on both sides of (something)The town straddles the river. The movie straddles the line between comedy and drama. spannedlapped, overlaid, overlapped, overlay, overspreadbisected, cut, intersectedcrisscrossed, decussatedexpanded, extended, fanned (out), flared (out), opened, outspread, outstretched, spread (out), stretched (out), unfolded, unfurledcarried, comprehended, contained, embraced, entailed, included, involved, numbered, subsumed, took incomprised, consisted (of)bracketedhad, held, owned, possessedadmitted, receivedcomposed, constituted, formed, madeassimilated, embodied, incorporated, integrated compacted, compressed, condensed, reducedclosed, contracted, foldedbanned, barred, debarred, precluded, prevented, prohibiteddenied, refused, rejectedeliminated, excepted, ruled outlost, mislaid, misplacedexcluded, left (out), missed out(British), omitted to agree with or seem to agree with two opposite sides of (something)The politician straddled the issue for weeks. flip-flopped, yo-yoeddodged, ducked, eluded, eschewed, evaded, shirked, shook, shunned, sidestepped, skirtedbypassed, circumventedcaviled(or cavilled), quibbledequivocated, fudged, hedged, pussyfooted, tergiversated, waffled, weaseled |