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Definition of Spreading

1. Noun. Process or result of distributing or extending over a wide expanse of space.

2. Noun. The opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate.

3. Noun. Act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or time.

Definition of Spreading

1. Verb. (present participle of spread) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Spreading

1. spread [v] - See also: spread

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spreading

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Literary usage of Spreading

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"Shrub, to 10 ft., usually with spreading and prostrate branches, in its native habitat often hanging down over cliffs: branchlets densely brownish ..."

2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915)
"Tree, to 40 feet, rarely to 60 ft., with spreading branches forming a ... Tree, to 60 feet, with pyramidal head and upright or spreading branches: Ivs. ..."

3. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1922)
"The spreading of the Aryan-Speakers. § 2. Primitive Aryan Life. § 3. ... Before the spreading of the Aryans from their lands of origin southward and ..."

4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1878)
"The disposition of the female to remain upon the same tree throughout its entire existence renders the modes of spreading from tree to tree incidental to ..."

5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Before long, however, the Bishop of Chartres, in whose diocese Saint-Cyr happened to be, took alarm at the spiritual ideas which were spreading there. ..."

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