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outspread

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out·spread  (out-sprd)
tr. & intr.v. out·spread, out·spread·ing, out·spreads
To stretch or extend or to be stretched or extended.
n. (outsprd)
1. The act of spreading out.
2. Something spread out; an expanse.
adj.
Spread out; extended.

outspread
vb [ˌaʊtˈsprɛd] -spreads, -spreading, -spread
to spread out or cause to spread out
adj [ˈaʊtˈsprɛd]
1. spread or stretched out
2. scattered or diffused widely
n [ˈaʊtˌsprɛd]
a spreading out
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.outspread - fully extended in width; "outspread wings"; "with arms spread wide"
extended - fully extended or stretched forth; "an extended telescope"; "his extended legs reached almost across the small room"; "refused to accept the extended hand"
Translations
outspread [ˈaʊtˈspred] ADJ [wings] → extendido, desplegado; [legs, feet] → extendido
with outspread armscon los brazos abiertos
outspread [ˌaʊtˈsprɛd] adj [wings] → déployé(e); [arms] → tendu(e)
outspread vb: pret, ptp <outspread>
adjausgebreitet
vtausbreiten
outspread [ˈaʊtˌsprɛd] adj (gen) → aperto/a; (wings) → spiegato/a
outspread [ˈaʊtˌsprɛd] adj (gen) → aperto/a; (wings) → spiegato/a


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Next morning the not-yet-subsided sea rolled in long slow billows of mighty bulk, and striving in the Pequod's gurgling track, pushed her on like giants' palms outspread.
From it there were outspread two pairs of wings- each wing nearly one hundred yards in length -- one pair being placed above the other, and all thickly covered with metal scales; each scale apparently some ten or twelve feet in diameter.
Tarzan, happily, was uninjured by the fall, alighting catlike upon all fours far outspread to take up the shock.
 
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