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Spread   /sprɛd/   Listen
Spread

verb
(past & past part. spread; pres. part. spreading)
1.
Distribute or disperse widely.  Synonym: distribute.  Antonym: gather.
2.
Become distributed or widespread.  Synonym: propagate.  "Optimism spread among the population"
3.
Spread across or over.  Synonym: overspread.
4.
Spread out or open from a closed or folded state.  Synonyms: open, spread out, unfold.  "Spread your arms"  Antonym: fold.
5.
Cause to become widely known.  Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate.  "Circulate a rumor" , "Broadcast the news"
6.
Become widely known and passed on.  Synonyms: circulate, go around.  "The story went around in the office"
7.
Strew or distribute over an area.  Synonyms: scatter, spread out.  "Scatter cards across the table"
8.
Move outward.  Synonyms: diffuse, fan out, spread out.
9.
Cover by spreading something over.
10.
Distribute over a surface in a layer.
noun
1.
Process or result of distributing or extending over a wide expanse of space.  Synonym: spreading.
2.
A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.  Synonym: gap.  "The spread between lending and borrowing costs"
3.
Farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle).  Synonyms: cattle farm, cattle ranch, ranch.
4.
A haphazard distribution in all directions.  Synonym: scatter.
5.
A tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes.  Synonym: paste.
6.
A meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed.  Synonyms: banquet, feast.  "The Thanksgiving feast" , "They put out quite a spread"
7.
Two facing pages of a book or other publication.  Synonyms: facing pages, spread head, spreadhead.
8.
The expansion of a person's girth (especially at middle age).
9.
Decorative cover for a bed.  Synonyms: bed cover, bed covering, bedcover, bedspread, counterpane.
10.
Act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or time.  Synonym: spreading.
adjective
1.
Distributed or spread over a considerable extent.  Synonym: dispersed.  "Eleven million Jews are spread throughout Europe"
2.
Prepared or arranged for a meal; especially having food set out.
3.
Fully extended in width.  Synonym: outspread.  "With arms spread wide"



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"Spread" Quotes from Famous Books



... Zary proceeded to walk up the stairs, turning up the lights as he went. He called the name of Beth softly three or four times, and presently a door opened overhead and a girl in a white dress came out. A pleased smile spread over her face as she looked over the balusters and noted ...
— The Mystery of the Four Fingers • Fred M. White

... Eagle intends to do. His section of the tribe is pretty considerable strong, and although at present I aint heard that any others have joined, these Injuns are like barrels of gunpowder: when the spark is once struck there's no saying how far the explosion may spread. When one band of 'em sees as how another is taking scalps and getting plunder and honor, they all want to be at the same work. I reckon War Eagle has got some two hundred braves who will follow him; but when the news spreads that he has begun his work, all the ...
— True to the Old Flag - A Tale of the American War of Independence • G. A. Henty

... immense depth, enclosed on all sides by a range of magnificent mountain precipices, the sides and summit of which are broken in every variety of buttress or pinnacle—now black and craggy and beetling—at other times spread with the richest green turf, and scattered with a profusion of the evergreen forest-trees, indigenous to the island; while far below, in the midst of all these horrors, smiles a fairy region of cultivation and fruitfulness, ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10, Issue 267, August 4, 1827 • Various

... eyes fixed themselves and the moaning began and continued. John was horror-struck and stood for a moment gazing at his face, over which the deep flush had spread once more, seeming to obliterate all appearance of intelligence. Then the young man put his hand beneath Goddard's head and gently replaced him in his former position, smoothing the pillows, and giving him ...
— A Tale of a Lonely Parish • F. Marion Crawford

... derived from a few little chinks in the apex of the roof. During the first freezing nights of late fall the beavers plaster the above-water dome of their house with mud which they carry up between their forelegs and chin from the lake bottom, and placing it upon the roof of their house, spread it about in a thick coating, not with their tails, but with their forefeet, where it soon freezes into so solid a mass that it protects the inmates from the attacks of both the severest winter weather and the most savage ...
— The Drama of the Forests - Romance and Adventure • Arthur Heming


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