Word Meanings - BROADCAST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BROADCAST)

• Scatter
• Strew
• sprinkle
• disperse
• spread
• broadcast
• dissipate
• disseminate
• propagate
• squander

Related words: (words related to BROADCAST)

• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• SQUANDER
  scatter, to squander, Prov. E. swatter, Dan. sqvatte, Sw. sqvätta to squirt, sqvättra to squander, Icel. skvetta to squirt out, to throw 1. To scatter; to disperse. Our squandered troops he rallies. Dryden. 2. To spend lavishly or profusely;
• STREWN
  p. p. of Strew.
• DISPERSED
  Scattered. -- Dis*pers"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*pers"ed*ness, n. Dispersed harmony , harmony in which the tones composing the chord are widely separated, as by an octave or more.
• SPREAD-EAGLED
  1. To place in a spread-eagle position, especially as a means of punishment. 2. being in a position with the arms and legs extended fully.
• DISSIPATED
  1. Squandered; scattered. "Dissipated wealth." Johnson. 2. Wasteful of health, money, etc., in the pursuit of pleasure; dissolute; intemperate. A life irregular and dissipated. Johnson.
• SPREAD-EAGLE
  Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; defiantly or extravagantly bombastic; as, a spread-eagle orator; a spread-eagle speech.
• SCATTERLING
  One who has no fixed habitation or residence; a vagabond. "Foreign scatterlings." Spenser.
• STREWING
  1. The act of scattering or spreading. 2. Anything that is, or may be, strewed; -- used chiefly in the plural. Shak.
• SCATTER-BRAIN
  A giddy or thoughtless person; one incapable of concentration or attention.
• DISPERSE
  1. To scatter abroad; to drive to different parts; to distribute; to diffuse; to spread; as, the Jews are dispersed among all nations. The lips of the wise disperse knowledge. Prov. xv. 7. Two lions, in the still, dark night, A herd of
• SCATTERING
  Going or falling in various directions; not united or agregated; divided among many; as, scattering votes.
• PROPAGATE
  akin to propages, propago, a layer of a plant, slip, shoot. See Pro-, 1. To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; -- applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or sheep; to propagate a species
• SCATTERGOOD
  One who wastes; a spendthrift.
• SQUANDERER
  One who squanders.
• STREWMENT
  Anything scattered, as flowers for decoration. Shak.
• SPRINKLER
  1. One who sprinkles. 2. An instrument or vessel used in sprinkling; specifically, a watering pot.
• DISPERSER
  One that disperses.
• DISSEMINATED
  Occurring in small portions scattered through some other substance.
• DISSIPATE
  1. To scatter completely; to disperse and cause to disappear; -- used esp. of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected or restored. Dissipated those foggy mists of error. Selden. I soon dissipated his fears. Cook. The extreme
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• BEDSPREAD
  A bedquilt; a counterpane; a coverlet.
• DISPREAD
  To spread abroad, or different ways; to spread apart; to open; as, the sun dispreads his beams. Spenser.
• OUTSPREAD
  To spread out; to expand; -- usually as a past part. or adj.
• INDISPERSED
  Not dispersed.
• BESPRINKLER
  One who, or that which, besprinkles.