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[ verb ] move outward
Examples "The soldiers fanned out" Used in print (Tristram Coffin, Not to the Swift....)He had dinner and sat there over his coffee watching the winding pattern of traffic as it crossed the bridge and spread_out like a serpent with two heads . (Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)Abel sat and regarded the farm country which , spreading_out from both sides of the road , rolled greenly up to where the silent white houses and long barns and silos nested into the tilled fields . |
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[ verb ] set out or stretch in a line, succession, or series
Synonyms Examples "the houses were strung out in a long row" Used in print (Sallie Bingham, "Moving Day," The Atlantic...)Then he spread_out the last list on the counter . (Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land....)He had been weary ; now he felt light and gay and clear-headed , ready for the many actions he saw spreading_out before him . Related terms |
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[ verb ] move away from each other
Examples "The crowds dispersed" "The children scattered in all directions when the teacher approached"; Related terms separate break aerosolise aerosolize volley scatter dispersion dissipation |
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