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outspread

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”).

  1. inherited from outspreden

Definitions

  1. To spread out

    To spread out; expand; extend.

  2. Extended outward, as one's arms.

    • 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.

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