spread out
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(verb) set out or stretch in a line, succession, or series, as of houses in a long row |
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Synonyms: string out |
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Related Words: arrange, set up |
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(verb) extend in one or more directions; "The dough expands" |
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Synonyms: expand |
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Related Words: bush out, dispread, grow, rise |
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(verb) spread out or open from a folded state; "open the map" |
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Synonyms: open, spread, unfold |
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Related Words: divaricate, exfoliate, grass, splay, uncross, undo |
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(verb) turn outward; "These birds can splay out their toes" |
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Synonyms: splay, turn out |
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Related Words: turn |
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(verb) move outward; "The soldiers fanned out" |
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Synonyms: diffuse, fan out, spread |
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Related Words: bleed, creep, distribute, grow over, mantle, percolate, run, spread |
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(verb) strew or distribute over an area; "He spread fertilizer over the lawn"; "scatter cards across the table" |
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Synonyms: scatter, spread |
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Related Words: birdlime, circulate, circumfuse, distribute, lime, manure, muck, pass around, pass on |
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(verb) move away from each other; "The crowds dispersed"; "The children scattered in all directions when the teacher approached"; |
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Synonyms: disperse, dissipate, scatter |
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Related Words: break, part, separate, split, volley |
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