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
Each crater held a single, stolid icefish, dark pectoral fins outspread like bat wings over a clutch of eggs.
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2022
Albert said something else, but the words were lost to Joseph as a ghostly voice called to him from the attic, and the angel reappeared with outspread wings above an ocean made of fire.
From "The Marvels" by Brian Selznick
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
The brush fire sent a line of smoke straight up, a long milky thread, that slowly disentangled itself and mounted to a final outspreading.
From The Emigrant Trail by Bonner, Geraldine
The mother declared that the sun, as it sank in the snowy clouds, seemed like a red glowing rose, which the gallant heaven had thrown upon the white outspreading bridal-veil of his loved earth.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno
God's predictions regard the vital part of communities, the spiritual forces; these, vigorous and outspreading, secure the material progress.
From Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity by Patterson, Robert
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