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dispreading

dispreading is the present participle and gerund of dispread.

Meaning of dispread

Verb

dispread (third-person singular simple present dispreads, present participle dispreading, simple past and past participle dispreaded)

  1. (archaic, rare) To spread out, to extend.
    • In widest Ocean she her throne does reare, / That ouer all the earth it may be seene; / As morning Sunne her beames dispredden cleare [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about dispreading

What is dispreading the present participle and gerund of?
Dispreading is the present participle and gerund of dispread.

Words near dispreading in the dictionary

  1. dispraisingly
  2. dispread
  3. dispreaded
  4. dispreader
  5. dispreaders
  6. dispreading
  7. dispreads
  8. dispred
  9. disprefer
  10. dispreference
  11. dispreferences

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