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forspread

verb

Etymology

From Middle English forspreden, equivalent to for- + spread. Cognate with Dutch verspreiden (“to spread, disseminate, distribute”).

  1. inherited from forspreden

Definitions

  1. To spread

    To spread; extend.

    • Or ever with me the maw of the sepulchre fed becometh, Or e'er in the dust each part of my frame forspread becometh, […]

  2. To diffuse

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for forspread. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA