outspread
Americanverb (used with or without object)
adjective
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spread out; stretched out.
outspread arms.
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diffused abroad; widely disseminated.
The outspread news had traveled quickly.
noun
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the act of spreading out; expansion.
the rapid outspread of the early American colonists.
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something that is spread out; an expanse.
a vast outspread of rich farmland.
verb
adjective
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spread or stretched out
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scattered or diffused widely
noun
Etymology
Origin of outspread
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At the top is an enamelled dove with outspread wings, which represents the Holy Ghost.
From Reuters ● May 5, 2023
We all wish we could still run into the outspread arms of the father we lost.
From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2022
In it, the angel’s wings are outspread, his gaze forward, his expression startled and open-mouthed, “looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating,” writes Benjamin.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2022
She then raised her outspread arms, thunder roared, lightning bolts flashed and — in some versions of the commercial — wild animals stampeded.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 25, 2020
A flock of gulls swoops down to the breakers, wings outspread, crying.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
I dreamed a world where all seemed first-created outspreading bird cherries in the dewfall with blackbirds and nightingales crowded.
From Time Magazine Archive
In four years he has made Brooklyn's farm system baseball's biggest, outspreading the famed St. Louis Cardinals' system, which he built.
From Time Magazine Archive
And he and his companion silently made their way along an outspreading branch, holding their lances in their hands.
From The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco by Perat
"We'll have something to eat now," Martin remarked, as he seated himself upon the ground beneath the shade of the outspreading branches.
From If Any Man Sin by H. A. (Hiram Alfred) Cody
Then came the bare fell, and the raw north wind, and the low gray house, stretching itself under the leafless, outspreading limbs of the sycamores.
From The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
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