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outspread
[ verb out-spred; adjective out-spred; noun out-spred ]
verb (used with or without object)
- to spread out; extend:
an eagle outspreading its wings.
adjective
- spread out; stretched out:
outspread arms.
- diffused abroad; widely disseminated:
The outspread news had traveled quickly.
noun
- the act of spreading out; expansion:
the rapid outspread of the early American colonists.
- something that is spread out; an expanse:
a vast outspread of rich farmland.
outspread
verb
- to spread out or cause to spread out
adjective
- spread or stretched out
- scattered or diffused widely
noun
- a spreading out
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of outspread1
Example Sentences
Occasionally, a couple will even have a Jack and Rose moment, one person with arms outspread, the other clutching them around the waist.
At the top is an enamelled dove with outspread wings, which represents the Holy Ghost.
We all wish we could still run into the outspread arms of the father we lost.
It finished the beautiful pattern and settled itself at the center with blue-furred legs outspread.
In it, the angel’s wings are outspread, his gaze forward, his expression startled and open-mouthed, “looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating,” writes Benjamin.
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