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outspread en · ADJ

Etymology

From Middle English outspreden, equivalent to out- + spread. Cognate with Dutch uitspreiden (“to outspread, stretch, unfold”), Danish udsprede (“to outspread”), Swedish utspridda (“to outspread”).

Meanings

  1. Extended outward, as one's arms; stretched out.
    • She longed to fall into his outspread arms once again.
    • Brutes […] / Ruminate heedleſs of the ſcene outſpread / Beneath, beyond, and ſtretching far away / From inland regions to the diſtant main. 1785, William Cowper, “Book V. The Winter Morning Walk.”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC, page 221:

Forms

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most outspread Degree=Sup lexicographic
more outspread Degree=Cmp lexicographic

outspread en · VERB

Etymology

From Middle English outspreden, equivalent to out- + spread. Cognate with Dutch uitspreiden (“to outspread, stretch, unfold”), Danish udsprede (“to outspread”), Swedish utspridda (“to outspread”).

Meanings

  1. (ambitransitive) To spread out; expand; extend.

Forms

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outspreads Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
outspread Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
outspread Tense=Past lexicographic
outspreading Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Deriveds

outspreadingly