spreading

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/ˈspɹɛdɪŋ/

noun 2

Collocations

ADJ.

dangerous, guilty, muddy, over

The muddy water was spreading across the floor after the pipe burst.

VERB + SPREADING

am, cackling, corrupting, fire, getting, gotten, married, rule

The fire is spreading rapidly through the forest, forcing evacuations in nearby towns.

SPREADING + NOUN

butter, combination, discoveries, guano, ideas, mary, mulch, mustard

The spreading of ideas through social media has changed how people communicate worldwide.

PREP.

about, around, around, from, in, in, on, out

The wildfire was spreading rapidly around the entire valley.

ADV.

loudly, quickly

The news spread quickly through the small town, reaching everyone by afternoon.

Definitions

noun

The act by which something is spread.

Small numbers [of meadowlarks] remain on farms in the southern counties throughout the winter, usually relying on fresh manure spreadings for food when snow covers the fields.

noun

The act of spreading (speedreading).

Chief among the strategies exploiting this rule was "spreading" (a combination of "speed" and "reading"), where debaters would rattle off arguments at a blistering pace. Their speeches often exceeded 300 words per minute. (A conversational pace is about 60 per minute.)

The NSDA currently boasts more than one hundred and fifty thousand student participants (per affiliated team rosters), many of whom compete in Lincoln–Douglas or policy. The activities are distinct in structure—policy is two-on-two—but they operate similarly on the national circuit, and involve spreading and other experimental tactics.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or t

spread

noun — the opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate

dissemination
airing

noun — process or result of distributing or extending over a wide e

spread

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

Small numbers [of meadowlarks] remain on farms in the southern counties throughout the winter, usually relying on fresh manure spreadings for food when snow covers the fields.

Wiktionary

Chief among the strategies exploiting this rule was "spreading" (a combination of "speed" and "reading"), where debaters would rattle off arguments at a blistering pace. Their speeches often exceeded

Wiktionary

The rain kept the fire from spreading.

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Maori culture is now spreading more and more among us and their language has become an official language.

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It is said that the disease has been spreading.

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