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disspread

disspread is the alternative form 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

Forms of disspread

third-person singular presentdisspreads
present participledisspreading
past participledisspreaded
pastdisspreaded

Questions about disspread

What is disspread the alternative form of?
Disspread is the alternative form of dispread.

Words near disspread in the dictionary

  1. disspirit
  2. disspirited
  3. disspiritedly
  4. disspiriting
  5. disspirits
  6. disspread
  7. disspreaded
  8. disspreading
  9. disspreads
  10. disstrack
  11. disstracks

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