English

Verb

spread out ‎(third-person singular simple present spreads out, present participle spreading out, simple past and past participle spread out)

1. (idiomatic, intransitive) Become further apart.

   The police spread out to search a wider area.

2. (idiomatic, transitive) To place items further apart.

   Spread the cards out and then turn two of them over at random.

Usage notes

In the transitive sense 2, the object may appear before or after the particle. If the object is a pronoun, then it must be before the particle.

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Anagrams

• outspread