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Spread out   /sprɛd aʊt/   Listen
Spread out

verb
1.
Move outward.  Synonyms: diffuse, fan out, spread.
2.
Set out or stretch in a line, succession, or series.  Synonym: string out.
3.
Strew or distribute over an area.  Synonyms: scatter, spread.  "Scatter cards across the table"
4.
Extend in one or more directions.  Synonym: expand.
5.
Turn outward.  Synonyms: rotate, splay, turn out.  "Ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees"
6.
Move away from each other.  Synonyms: disperse, dissipate, scatter.  "The children scattered in all directions when the teacher approached"
7.
Spread out or open from a closed or folded state.  Synonyms: open, spread, unfold.  "Spread your arms"






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"Spread out" Quotes from Famous Books



... Louise Mazarine had seen her old world pass in a flash of flame and a new world trembling with a new life spread out before her; had come to know what her old world really was. The eyes with which she looked upon her new world had in them the glimmer not only of awakened feeling but of awakened understanding. To this time she had endured her aged husband as a slave comes to bear the lashes of his master, ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... the road, the procession spread out for a hundred yards behind the Flopper—bare-footed children; women in multi-colored gingham and calico; men in the uncouth dress of the fields, the uncouthness accentuated by the sprinkling of more pretentious ...
— The Miracle Man • Frank L. Packard

... self-assurance. The Medical Center was a big, rambling place with a lot of spread-out one- and two-story buildings that looked so much like "Hospital" that no one in the world would have mistaken them for anything else. The main building was by the road, the rest spread out behind as far as I could see; beyond my esper range even though the whole business was set in one of the clearest psi areas that ...
— Highways in Hiding • George Oliver Smith

... gave general instructions. They were to spread out on the right and left, and make their way singly up through the vines, and past the field-watch if they could without risk of detection. They were to join him high up on the slope, and opposite to the bonfire which would be burning at the ...
— Ensign Knightley and Other Stories • A. E. W. Mason

... she does—you do, you glum-faced, blue-bearded, little old man! You might have sat, like Darby and Joan, and flattered each other; and billed and cooed like a pair of old pigeons on a perch. I want my wings and to use them, sir." And she spread out her beautiful arms, as if indeed she could fly off like the pretty "Gawrie", whom the man in the story ...
— Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges • William Makepeace Thackeray


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