Dispread
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Dispread is a verb meaning (archaic, rare) To spread out, to extend.
Meaning
(archaic, rare) To spread out, to extend.
Example Sentences
The lamp which ultimately was sure to be lifted up to illumine the acts of this secretive race began slowly to dispread its rays …
In widest Ocean she her throne does reare, / That ouer all the earth it may be seene; / As morning Sunne her beames dispredden cleare [...].
her dark hair was dispread, Like the pine’s locks upon the lingering blast; Over mine eyes its shadowy strings it spread Fitfully, and the hills and streams fled fast, As o’er their glimmering forms the steed’s broad shadow past; […]
Word Forms
- dispreads
- dispreading
- dispreaded
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include disspread, despread, dispred, dispand, spredde, spred.
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