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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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
When the dough has doubled in size, about an hour or so, push it down with outspread fingers, making dimples in the dough.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 5, 2021
Thus a skydiver falls more slowly with outspread limbs than when they are in a pike position—head first with hands at their side and legs together.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
A gray bird circled, glided downward on outspread wings, then flew rapidly across the fields and disappeared from sight.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
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
It was very still in the orchard; cool, too, for the hot June sun only penetrated in spots the outspreading branches of the old trees.
From Happy House by Jane D. Abbott
The sea outspreading glorious, In the dying sunbeams shone.
From Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine by Heinrich Heine
On one side rugged, sternly rising, crenelated, grey, snow-strewn; on the other, dreamy, far outspreading, gently vanishing, southward luring, softly glowing, wrapt in tints of loveliest azure, gradually blending with the silver-fretted sky.
From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume I by Mrs. Russell Barrington
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