spread

spread
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noun
1 increase in amount or number of sth
ADJECTIVE
good, great, wide
rapid
gradual, slow
geographical, global

The current survey will have a wider geographical spread.

VERB + SPREAD
encourage, promote

Such unhygienic conditions encourage the spread of disease.

halt, prevent, stem, stop, tackle
combat, contain, control, curb, limit, reduce, slow (esp. AmE)
PREPOSITION
spread of

the spread of fire

2 newspaper, magazine, etc.
ADJECTIVE
centre/center

A photograph of the star adorned the centre/center spread.

double, double-page (esp. BrE), two-page
five-page, 20-page, etc.
full-page
fashion, photo
PHRASES
be featured in a spread, feature in a spread

She is featured in spreads in Vogue.

Her work featured in a two-page spread in ‘New Woman’ magazine.

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verb
1 open sth so that you can see all of it
ADVERB
carefully
out

We spread the rug out on the floor.

PREPOSITION
across, on, over
PHRASES
spread sth open

He had a newspaper spread open on his knee.

spread your arms, legs, etc. out wide, spread your arms, legs, etc. wide

a bird with its wings spread wide

2 reach more people/wider area
ADVERB
fast, like wildfire, quickly, rapidly, soon

The news spread like wildfire.

gradually, slowly
easily

The disease spreads easily.

widely

Allow plenty of space for this plant as its roots spread widely.

far and wide

His fame had spread far and wide.

outwards/outward
PREPOSITION
(all) across, among, around, beyond, by, from, into, (all) over, through, throughout, to

The effects of this policy spread far beyond children now at school.

The disease can be spread by contact.

The fire rapidly spread to adjoining buildings.

PHRASES
be thinly spread

Expertise in this field is very thinly spread across the country.

spread yourself too thin

With four markets to manage, there's a danger that's she's spreading herself too thin.

3 cover a surface with a soft substance
ADVERB
thickly
lightly, thinly
evenly

Don't make the paste too thick, or it will not spread evenly.

PREPOSITION
on

He spread marmalade on the toast.

with

Spread each slice generously with butter.

4 divide/share sth
ADVERB
equally, evenly, uniformly
unevenly
VERB + SPREAD
try to
PREPOSITION
among, between

We tried to spread the workload evenly between the departments.

over

The course takes forty hours, spread over twenty weeks.

Spread is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑awareness, ↑blaze, ↑blood, ↑blush, ↑butter, ↑cancer, ↑crack, ↑discontent, ↑disease, ↑effect, ↑epidemic, ↑fame, ↑fire, ↑flame, ↑flush, ↑infection, ↑mosquito, ↑news, ↑panic, ↑plague, ↑rash, ↑religion, ↑revolt, ↑revolution, ↑ripple, ↑rumour, ↑sensation, ↑silence, ↑smile, ↑stain, ↑story, ↑strike, ↑violence, ↑virus, ↑war, ↑warmth, ↑weed, ↑word
Spread is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ash, ↑bread, ↑butter, ↑chocolate, ↑cost, ↑democracy, ↑disease, ↑faith, ↑fertilizer, ↑finger, ↑frosting, ↑germ, ↑gospel, ↑gossip, ↑hand, ↑HIV, ↑honey, ↑icing, ↑ideology, ↑infection, ↑influence, ↑investment, ↑jam, ↑jelly, ↑joy, ↑knowledge, ↑leg, ↑load, ↑manure, ↑margarine, ↑message, ↑misinformation, ↑mixture, ↑mustard, ↑myth, ↑net, ↑news, ↑palm, ↑panic, ↑plague, ↑poison, ↑pollen, ↑propaganda, ↑religion, ↑repayment, ↑risk, ↑rumour, ↑seed, ↑story, ↑teaching, ↑terror, ↑toast, ↑virus, ↑wealth, ↑wing, ↑word, ↑workload, ↑wreckage

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