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The Meaning of spread
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(imp. & p. p.) of Spread
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(v. t.) To extend in length and breadth, or in breadth only; to stretch or expand to a broad or broader surface or extent; to open; to unfurl; as, to spread a carpet; to spread a tent or a sail.
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(v. t.) To extend so as to cover something; to extend to a great or grater extent in every direction; to cause to fill or cover a wide or wider space.
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(v. t.) To divulge; to publish, as news or fame; to cause to be more extensively known; to disseminate; to make known fully; as, to spread a report; -- often acompanied by abroad.
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(v. t.) To propagate; to cause to affect great numbers; as, to spread a disease.
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(v. t.) To diffuse, as emanations or effluvia; to emit; as, odoriferous plants spread their fragrance.
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(v. t.) To strew; to scatter over a surface; as, to spread manure; to spread lime on the ground.
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(v. t.) To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions; as, to spread a table.
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(v. i.) To extend in length and breadth in all directions, or in breadth only; to be extended or stretched; to expand.
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(v. i.) To be extended by drawing or beating; as, some metals spread with difficulty.
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(v. i.) To be made known more extensively, as news.
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(v. i.) To be propagated from one to another; as, the disease spread into all parts of the city.
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(n.) Extent; compass.
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(n.) Expansion of parts.
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(n.) A cloth used as a cover for a table or a bed.
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(n.) A table, as spread or furnished with a meal; hence, an entertainment of food; a feast.
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(n.) A privilege which one person buys of another, of demanding certain shares of stock at a certain price, or of delivering the same shares of stock at another price, within a time agreed upon.
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(n.) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
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() imp. & p. p. of Spread, v.
Rhymes
abed
,
aforesaid
,
ahead
,
airhead
,
armstead
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arrowhead
,
bankhead
,
beachhead
,
bed
,
bedspread
,
behead
,
biomed
,
bled
,
blockhead
,
bloodshed
,
bobsled
,
bread
,
bred
,
bridgehead
,
broadhead
,
brodhead
,
bulkhead
,
bullhead
,
calfed
,
coed
,
copperhead
,
cornbread
,
dead
,
deadhead
,
deathbed
,
dragonhead
,
dread
,
dred
,
dredd
,
drumhead
,
ed
,
egghead
,
embed
,
farmstead
,
featherbed
,
fed
,
figurehead
,
flatbed
,
flathead
,
fled
,
fred
,
freda
,
ged
,
gingerbread
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godhead
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hampstead
,
hardhead
,
head
,
hollingshead
,
homestead
,
horsehead
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hotbed
,
imbed
,
inbred
,
infrared
,
instead
,
interbred
,
jed
,
lead
,
led
,
letterhead
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loggerhead
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marblehead
,
masthead
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med
,
misled
,
misread
,
ned
,
nedd
,
newlywed
,
numed
,
overfed
,
overhead
,
pled
,
purebred
,
read
,
reade
,
red
,
redd
,
redhead
,
retread
,
riverbed
,
riverhead
,
roundhead
,
said
,
sayed
,
schwed
,
seabed
,
sffed
,
shead
,
shed
,
shedd
,
shred
,
skinhead
,
sled
,
sledd
,
spearhead
,
sped
,
stead
,
steelhead
,
sudafed
,
swed
,
szwed
,
ted
,
thickhead
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thoroughbred
,
thread
,
trailhead
,
tread
,
unread
,
unsaid
,
unted
,
unwed
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warhead
,
watershed
,
wed
,
wedd
,
wehde
,
wellhead
,
whitehead
,
widespread
,
woodshed
,
zed