dispread

Or dis·spread

[dih-spred]

verb (used with or without object)

dispread, dispreading 

1. to spread out; extend.

Other Word Forms

• dispreader noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of dispread¹

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

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.

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

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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.”

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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.

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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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