dispread

American  

[dih-spred] / dɪˈsprɛd /

Or disspread

verb (used with or without object)

dispread, dispreading

1. to spread out; extend.

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Other Word Forms

• dispreader noun

Etymology

Origin of dispread

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

Example Sentences

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

From The Guardian • Jan. 10, 2011

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.

From Strangers at Lisconnel by Barlow, Jane

Through tears I see the nodding head, The purple and the green dispread.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 88, April, 1875 by Various

There are some human thoughts Best left imprisoned in the aching heart, Lest the freed malefactors should dispread Infamous ruin with their liberty.

From Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Francesca da Rimini by Moses, Montrose Jonas

But old Bunyan's donkey is still browzing there, and yonder is old Bunyan's self—the brawny tramper dispread on the settle, retailing to the more clownish residents tap-room wit and roadside news.

From Life of Bunyan [Works of the English Puritan divines] by Hamilton, James