Dispread
verb
verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To spread out, to extend. archaic, rare
"In widest Ocean she her throne does reare, / That ouer all the earth it may be seene; / As morning Sunne her beames dispredden cleare [...]."
- 2 spread abroad or out wordnet
Example
More examples"Then they planted this garden with all manner fruit-bearing trees and fragrant herbs and flowers and firstlings of every kind and hue and they trained the branches after a wonderful fashion, leading under their shade leats and runnels of cool water; and the boughs were cunningly dispread so as to veil the ground which was planted with grains of divers sorts and greens and all of vegetation that serveth for the food of man."
Etymology
From dis- + spread.
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