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1spread about — index diffuse Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
2spread — Synonyms and related words: aberrate, aberration, accelerated, access, accessible, accession, accretion, accrual, accrue, accruement, accumbent, accumulate, accumulation, acreage, addition, adjunct, advance, advertise, affirmed, afghan,… …
3spread — [[t]spre̱d[/t]] ♦♦ spreads, spreading, spread 1) VERB If you spread something somewhere, you open it out or arrange it over a place or surface, so that all of it can be seen or used easily. [V n prep] She spread a towel on the sand and lay on it …
4spread — 01. The fire [spread] quickly from building to building due to the dry, windy weather. 02. The doctor warned her not to scratch the rash on her arm or it could [spread] to other parts of her body. 03. We [spread] our wet clothes on the hot rocks… …
5Spread offense — “Spread offense” may also refer to the four corners offense developed by Dean Smith. The spread offense is an offensive American football scheme that is used at every level of the game including the NFL, CFL, NCAA, NAIA, and high schools across… …
6spread — vb Spread, circulate, disseminate, diffuse, propagate, radiate can all mean to extend or cause to extend over an area or space. Spread basically implies a drawing or stretching out to the limit {spread a net} {spread a cloth on the ground} {the… …
7spread the word — spread the word/gospel/message phrase to tell a lot of people about an idea that you believe in They are spreading the word on the need for healthy eating. Campaigners worked tirelessly to spread the environmentalist message. Thesaurus: to give …
8spread-eagle — [spred′ē΄gəl] adj. 1. having the figure of an eagle with wings and legs spread ☆ 2. Informal boastful or jingoistic about the U.S. vt. spread eagled, spread eagling to stretch out in the form of a spread eagle, as for a flogging vi. to perform a… …
9spread like wildfire — phrase if information spreads like wildfire, a lot of people hear about it in a short period of time The rumour that he had left spread like wildfire. Thesaurus: to be, or to become knownsynonym Main entry: wildfire * * * I see …
10spread the word — If you spread the word about something, you let as many people know about it as you can …
