spread

To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.

He spread his newspaper on the table.

To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions. simple past and past participle of spread

I spread my arms wide and welcomed him home.

To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.

I spread the rice grains evenly over the floor.

To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.

Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.[…]One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fallen over the centuries, as policing has spread and the routine carrying of weapons has diminished. Modern society may not have done anything about war. But peace is a lot more peaceful.

As the Erzurum affair indicated, the janissaries in the provinces and in the capital city were in close touch, and thus the movements were quick to spread to Istanbul.

To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.

The missionaries quickly spread their new message across the country.

The act of spreading.

No flower hath that kind of spread that the woodbine hath.

Something that has been spread.

A layout, pattern or design of cards arranged for a reading.

An expanse of land.

November 29, 1712, Andrew Freeport, a letter to The Spectator I have got a fine spread of improvable lands.

A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.

- Can't wait till I get my own spread and won't have to put up with Joe Aguirre's crap no more.

To speedread; to recite one's arguments at an extremely fast pace.

You're assuming that if someone spreads they aren't a good orator. That's flawed logic.

In my first year on the circuit, I learned to spread and did decently well. I won most of my rounds, not that I could tell you how I did it.