Word Meanings - SPREAD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

spreden, spreen, spreien, G. spreiten, Dan. sprede, Sw. sprida. Cf. 1. To extend in length and breadth, or in breadth only; to stretch or expand to a broad or broader surface or extent; to open; to unfurl; as, to spread a carpet; to spread a tent

Additional info about word: SPREAD

spreden, spreen, spreien, G. spreiten, Dan. sprede, Sw. sprida. Cf. 1. To extend in length and breadth, or in breadth only; to stretch or expand to a broad or broader surface or extent; to open; to unfurl; as, to spread a carpet; to spread a tent or a sail. He bought a parcel of a field where he had spread his tent. Gen. xxxiii. 19. Here the Rhone Hath spread himself a couch. Byron. 2. To extend so as to cover something; to extend to a great or grater extent in every direction; to cause to fill or cover a wide or wider space. Rose, as in a dance, the stately trees, and spread Their branches hung with copious fruit. Milton. 3. To divulge; to publish, as news or fame; to cause to be more extensively known; to disseminate; to make known fully; as, to spread a report; -- often acompanied by abroad. They, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country. Matt. ix. 31. 4. To propagate; to cause to affect great numbers; as, to spread a disease. 5. To diffuse, as emanations or effluvia; to emit; as, odoriferous plants spread their fragrance. 6. To strew; to scatter over a surface; as, to spread manure; to spread lime on the ground. 7. To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions; as, to spread a table. Boiled the flesh, and spread the board. Tennyson. To sprad cloth, to unfurl sail. Evelyn. Syn. -- To diffuse; propogate; disperse; publish; distribute; scatter; circulate; disseminate; dispense.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SPREAD)

• Circulate
• Disseminate
• disuse
• propagate
• publish
• notify
• spread
• travel
• Spread
• preach
• proclaim
• promulgate
• scatter
• circulate
• Expand
• Swell
• dilate
• extend
• open
• diffuse
• develop
• unfold
• enlarge
• amplify
• Extend
• Prolong
• stretch
• expand
• increase
• augment
• reach
• avail
• apply
• Float
• Swim
• prevail

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SPREAD)

• Fail
• fall
• disappoint
• betray

Related words: (words related to SPREAD)

• AVAILABLENESS
  1. Competent power; validity; efficacy; as, the availableness of a title. 2. Quality of being available; capability of being used for the purpose intended. Sir M. Hale.
• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• PUBLISH
  Etym: 1. To make public; to make known to mankind, or to people in general; to divulge, as a private transaction; to promulgate or proclaim, as a law or an edict. Published was the bounty of her name. Chaucer. The unwearied sun, from day to day,
• TRAVEL
  1. To labor; to travail. Hooker. 2. To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets. 3. To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health;
• PUBLISHER
  One who publishes; as, a publisher of a book or magazine. For love of you, not hate unto my friend, Hath made me publisher of this pretense. Shak.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• UNFOLDER
  One who, or that which, unfolds.
• FLOATATION
  See FLOTATION
• TRAVELER
  A traveling crane. See under Crane. (more info) 1. One who travels; one who has traveled much. 2. A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc.
• DEVELOPMENT
  The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization. The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another
• EXTENDLESSNESS
  Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
• AVAIL
  1. To turn to the advantage of; to be of service to; to profit; to benefit; to help; as, artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment. O, what avails me now that honor high ! Milton. 2. To promote; to assist. Pope. To avail one's
• DIFFUSE
  To pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow on all sides; to send out, or extend, in all directions; to spread; to circulate; to disseminate; to scatter; as to diffuse information. Thence diffuse His good to worlds and
• DIFFUSED
  Spread abroad; dispersed; loose; flowing; diffuse. It grew to be a widely diffused opinion. Hawthorne. -- Dif*fus"ed*ly, adv. -- Dif*fus"ed*ness, n.
• REACH
  An effort to vomit.
• UNFOLDMENT
  The acct of unfolding, or the state of being unfolded. The extreme unfoldment of the instinctive powers. C. Morris.
• NOTIFY
  1. To make known; to declare; to publish; as, to notify a fact to a person. No law can bind till it be notified or promulged. Sowth. 2. To give notice to; to inform by notice; to apprise; as, the constable has notified the citizens to meet at the
• BETRAYAL
  The act or the result of betraying.
• REACHABLE
  Being within reach.
• EXTENDANT
  Displaced. Ogilvie.
• OUTPREACH
  To surpass in preaching. And for a villain's quick conversion A pillory can outpreach a parson. Trumbull.
• PARAVAIL
  At the bottom; lowest. Cowell. Note: In feudal law, the tenant paravail is the lowest tenant of the fee, or he who is immediate tenant to one who holds over of another. Wharton.
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• REPUBLISH
  To publish anew; specifically, to publish in one country (a work first published in another); also, to revive by re Subsecquent to the purchase or contract, the devisor republished his will. Blackstone.
• FOREREACH
  To advance or gain upon; -- said of a vessel that gains upon another when sailing closehauled.
• UPSWELL
  To swell or rise up.
• BEDSPREAD
  A bedquilt; a counterpane; a coverlet.
• NONDEVELOPMENT
  Failure or lack of development.
• DISAUGMENT
  To diminish.
• HIGH-REACHING
  Reaching high or upward; hence, ambitious; aspiring. Shak.