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wide-spreading
[ wahyd-spred-ing ]
adjective
- spreading over or covering a large area:
wide-spreading showers; wide-spreading ivy.
- affecting or reaching a large area:
a wide-spreading infection.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of wide-spreading1
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Example Sentences
When they reached this place they were very tired, and sat down by a spring beneath the wide-spreading branches of a tree.
His high-pressure steam-engine was the pioneer of locomotion and its wide-spreading civilization.
He thought he heard the ripple of waves on a sunlit shore, and of wide-spreading trees which grew close to the edge of the sea.
Dick glanced around the room, and then gave a look towards the wide-spreading park-lands.
It was a huge buck, with wide-spreading antlers, rising out of the bushes where it stood.
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