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outspread

outspread verb: to spread out; expand; extend.

Verb

outspread (third-person singular simple present outspreads, present participle outspreading, simple past and past participle outspread)

  1. (ambitransitive) To spread out; expand; extend.

Adjective

outspread (comparative more outspread, superlative most outspread)

  1. Extended outward, as one's arms; stretched out.
    • She longed to fall into his outspread arms once again.
    • Brutes […] / Ruminate heedleſs of the ſcene outſpread / Beneath, beyond, and ſtretching far away / From inland regions to the diſtant main.1785, William Cowper, “Book V. The Winter Morning Walk.”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC, page 221

outspread meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

outspread in Urdu

پھیلا ہوا

outspread in Malayalam

outstretched, fully extended, spread out
പരത്തിയിട്ട, പൂർണ്ണമായിവിതിർത്ത, വിരിച്ചിട്ട, നിവർത്തിയിട്ട, നീണ്ടുകിടക്കുന്ന, നീണ്ടുനിവർന്നുകിടക്കുന്ന

outspread in Kannada

ವಿಶಾಲವಾಗಿ ಹರಡಿದ, ಹರಡಿದ, ಚಾಚಿದ, ಹಿಗ್ಗಿಸಿದ, ಅಗಲಗೊಳಿಸಿದ

Forms of outspread

Verb
third-person singular presentoutspreads
present participleoutspreading
past participleoutspread
pastoutspread
Adjective
comparativemore outspread
superlativemost outspread

Past tense of outspread: outspread

Origin of outspread

From Middle English outspreden, equivalent to out- + spread. Cognate with Dutch uitspreiden (“to outspread, stretch, unfold”), Danish udsprede (“to outspread”), Swedish utspridda (“to outspread”).

Words formed from outspread

Questions about outspread

What does outspread mean?
Outspread means to spread out; expand; extend.
What is outspread in Urdu?
Outspread in Urdu is پھیلا ہوا. See Outspread meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is outspread?
Outspread can be a verb or an adjective.
What is the past tense of outspread?
The past tense of outspread is outspread.

Words near outspread in the dictionary

  1. outspout
  2. outspouted
  3. outspouting
  4. outspouts
  5. outsprang
  6. outspread
  7. outspreading
  8. outspreadingly
  9. outspreads
  10. outspring
  11. outspringing

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: outspread (page history and authors); outspread (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); outspread (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); outspread (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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