spread out
spread out verb: become further apart.
Verb
spread out (third-person singular simple present spreads out, present participle spreading out, simple past and past participle spread out)
- Become further apart.
- The police spread out to search a wider area.
- To place items further apart.
- Spread the cards out and then turn two of them over at random.
Adjective
spread out (comparative more spread out, superlative most spread out)
- Far apart, not close to each other, extended over an expanse of space or time.
- In other words, space is very empty, and particles are very spread out.2000, Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence, →ISBN
- It is extremely time-consuming to use public transportation and the restaurants and dining are very spread out.2007, Carolyn C. Wise, Stephanie Hauser, The Business School Buzz Book, →ISBN, page 90
- Synonyms:
- spaced out, thin, diffuse, dispersed, incompact, loose, noncompact, scattered, sparse, uncompact
- Covering a wide area of space or long period of time.
- The park is very spread out, with two core areas approximately 1.5 km apart, and the trailer dump station almost 2 km away near the park entrance.2006, Michael Clancy, Anna Clancy, A User's Guide to Saskatchewan Parks, →ISBN, page 69
- As a result, U.S. cities have become very spread out and cover a great deal of land.2007, Yukio Noguchi, James M. Poterba, Housing Markets in the United States and Japan, →ISBN, page 133
- Synonyms:
- widespread
spread out meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
spread out in Hindi
- to spread out, stretch out
- पसरना pasarnā
- spread out, diffused, extensive
- व्यापक vyāpak
spread out in Tamil
- தூவு, பரப்பு, நிமிர்
spread out in Marathi
- to spread out, scatter, disperse, dissipate
- पसरणे pasarṇe
spread out in Urdu
- مبسوت
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- spread out in Bengali
- বিস্তীর্ণ bistirnô
- spread out in Telugu
- విస్తృతము vistr̥tamu
- spread out in Gujarati
- છાવું chāvũ
- spread out in Assamese
- পাৰা para, পাৰ par, পৰা pora, মেলা mela
- spread out in Nepali
- पटाउनु paṭāunu
- spread out in Arabic
- تَفَرَّقَ tafarraqa, فَرَّقَ farraqa, مُنْتَشِر muntašir, مُتَفَرِّق mutafarriq
Examples of spread out in a sentence
- The plague is spread person to person, so if the people are very spread out, fewer of them will come in contact with those afflected by the plague.2014, William W. Johnstone, Warriors from the Ashes, →ISBN:
- The t distribution tends to be flatter and more spread out, whereas the normal z distribution has more of a central peak.2009, Frederick J. Gravetter, Larry B. Wallnau, Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, →ISBN, page 285:
- The city is very spread out and continues to sprawl outward and consume more and more real estate.2011, Cat Schmidt, Peripheral Vision, →ISBN, page 1:
Synonyms of spread out
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Forms of spread out
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | spreads out |
| present participle | spreading out |
| past participle | spread out |
| past | spread out |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more spread out |
| superlative | most spread out |
Origin of spread out
Analytic form of earlier outspread.
Questions about spread out
- What does spread out mean?
- Spread out means become further apart.
- What is spread out in Hindi?
- Spread out in Hindi is पसरना (pasarnā), व्यापक (vyāpak). See Spread out meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use spread out in a sentence?
- The plague is spread person to person, so if the people are very spread out, fewer of them will come in contact with those afflected by the plague.
- What part of speech is spread out?
- Spread out can be a verb or an adjective.
- What is the past tense of spread out?
- The past tense of spread out is spread out.
Words near spread out in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: spread out (page history and authors); पसरना (Hindi) (page history and authors); spread out (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); पसरणे (Marathi) (page history and authors); spread out (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); বিস্তীর্ণ (Bengali) (page history and authors); విస్తృతము (Telugu) (page history and authors); છાવું (Gujarati) (page history and authors); পাৰ (Assamese) (page history and authors); पटाउनु (Nepali) (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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