dispread
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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The little girl's face, "like peony dispread", seems almost rapacious.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 10, 2011
He, famine-stung, with triple jaws dispread, The morsel snaps, then prone along the cave Lies stretched on earth, with loosened limbs, as dead.
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Edward Fairfax Taylor
Had we known of thy coming we fain had dispread, i.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
The Kingstonians dispread themselves over the field in their various positions.
From The Dozen from Lakerim by Rupert Hughes
She dispread the locks from her head one night, iii.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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