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
Example Sentences
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Occasionally, a couple will even have a Jack and Rose moment, one person with arms outspread, the other clutching them around the waist.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 12, 2024
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
He points to the bible outspread on my lap.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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
I dreamed a world where all seemed first-created outspreading bird cherries in the dewfall with blackbirds and nightingales crowded.
From Time Magazine Archive
I do not know what could be more lovely than our leisurely hour—the distance was fifteen miles—under cool, outspreading branches, with glimpses of the bright river and vistas of happy fields.
From The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age by Paine, Albert Bigelow
What scanty light penetrated to the boys filtered through the outspreading branches of the fallen pine.
From The Camp in the Snow, or, Besieged by Danger by Graydon, William Murray
Nearby stood a large tree, with great outspreading branches, and under this they stopped, John's heart was beating fast, while the girl's face almost equalled the rose in colour.
From Jess of the Rebel Trail by Cody, H. A. (Hiram Alfred)
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