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dispread

or dis·spread

[ dih-spred ]

verb (used with or without object)

, dis·pread, dis·pread·ing.
  1. to spread out; extend.


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Other Words From

  • dis·preader noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of dispread1

First recorded in 1580–90; di- 2 + spread
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Example Sentences

Mrs. Wyllys launched herself into the hall at sound of their voices, her bright azure train 'wide dispread;' her arms extended like the yards of a ship.

The little girl's face, "like peony dispread", seems almost rapacious.

But this thy host so wide dispread Wakes in my heart one doubt and dread, Lest, threatening Ráma good and great, Ill thoughts thy journey stimulate.”

The west dispread its fiery golden bloom wider every moment as the swelling scarlet disc wheeled lower, burning with orbed flame a hollow path through the kindled haze.

He, famine-stung, with triple jaws dispread, The morsel snaps, then prone along the cave Lies stretched on earth, with loosened limbs, as dead.

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