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spread one's net wide

spread one's net wide is the alternative form of cast one's net wide.

Meaning of cast one's net wide

Verb

cast one's net wide (third-person singular simple present casts one's net wide, present participle casting one's net wide, simple past and past participle cast one's net wide)

  1. (figuratively) To attempt a large number and variety of options.

Forms of spread one's net wide

third-person singular presentspreads one's net wide
present participlespreading one's net wide
past participlespread one's net wide
pastspread one's net wide

Questions about spread one's net wide

What is spread one's net wide the alternative form of?
Spread one's net wide is the alternative form of cast one's net wide.

Words near spread one's net wide in the dictionary

  1. spread it on thick
  2. spread like wildfire
  3. spread limit
  4. spread limits
  5. spread one's legs
  6. spread one's net wide
  7. spread one's wings
  8. spread oneself thin
  9. spread oneself too thin
  10. spread operator
  11. spread operators

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spread one's net wide (page history and authors); cast one's net wide (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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