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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outspread.

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Examples

  • As these gorgeous curtains spread east and west, and he takes his morning bath in the clouds and vapours, rises up the proud monarch of the farm-yard, as if in bold rivalry, outspreads his fine plumage in emulation of the rose and daffodil curtains, and bids him welcome with a voice so loud and shrill, that he must almost hear it from his domed throne above.

    Gladys, the Reaper Anne Beale

  • The darkness stirs, it awakes, it outspreads its arms,

    Fires of Driftwood 1922

  • Ah kingly kiss – no more regret nor old deep memories to mar the bliss; where the low sedge is thick, the gold day-lily outspreads and rests beneath soft fluttering of red swan wings and the warm quivering of the red swan's breast.

    Hymen Hilda Doolittle 1921

  • As your horses plod up and up the almost perpendicular trail that leads out of the Nicola Valley to the summit, a paradise of beauty outspreads at your feet; the colour is indescribable in words, the atmosphere thrills you.

    Legends of Vancouver 1911

  • As your horses plod up and up the almost perpendicular trail that leads out of the Nicola Valley to the summit, a paradise of beauty outspreads at your feet; the color is indescribable in words, the atmosphere thrills you.

    Legends of Vancouver 1911

  • In the evening something comes along the trench, rising and falling according to the lumps and holes in the ground; a shape that seems in the shadows to be swimming, that outspreads its arms sometimes, as though appealing for help.

    Under Fire: the story of a squad Henri Barbusse 1904

  • As your horses plod up and up the almost perpendicular trail that leads out of the Nicola Valley to the summit, a paradise of beauty outspreads at your feet; the color is indescribable in words, the atmosphere thrills you.

    Legends of Vancouver E. Pauline Johnson 1887

  • As your horses plod up and up the almost perpendicular trail that leads out of the Nicola Valley to the summit, a paradise of beauty outspreads at your feet; the color is indescribable in words, the atmosphere thrills you.

    Legends of Vancouver E. Pauline Johnson 1887

  • Arbores. cent ferps of unfammiliar elegance curve up from path-verge lake-brink; and the great _arbre-du-voyageur_ outspreads its colossal fan.

    Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • And worse than both next morn her light outspreads.

    Jerusalem Delivered Torquato Tasso 1569

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