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3. scramble, crawl, creep, scrabble; scuttle, hitch, hobble, jerk, shuffle, shamble.

-n. 4. spread, stretch, SI. skimble-scamble, growth, outgrowth; expansion, extension, widening, broadening; branching out, spreading out, dispersion, dispersal.

spray¹, n. 1. sprinkle, sprinkling, shower; mist, drizzle, Dial, mizzle; fountain, jet, splash, plash, spatter, splatter, hail; spindrift, foam, froth, spume; effervescence, fizz.

2. sprinkler, sprinkling can, sprayer, rose, nozzle, atomizer, vaporizer, evaporator.

- v. 3. scatter, disperse, disseminate, sow, sprinkle, spatter; fusillade, barrage, shotgun; shower, drizzle, jet, splatter, spout, gush, splash, dash.

spray², n. bough, branch, sprig; nosegay, posy, bouquet, floral arrangement, May basket, corsage, blossoms; chaplet, wreath, garland, festoon; (all of flowers, twigs, etc.) cluster, bunch, sheath.

spread, v. 1. Often

spread out stretch, extend, enlarge, widen, broaden, augment, aggrandize, amplify; stretch out, draw out, lengthen, elongate, protract, prolongate, drag out; expand, dilate, distend, swell, bloat; grow, develop, increase, advance, multiply, mushroom, branch out; deepen, heighten, wax, intensify, escalate, accelerate; sprawl, overdevelop, overgrow, become a cancer; travel, transfer, move around, Pathol, metastasize.

2. Often

spread out stretch out, open out, unfurl, uncurl, uncoil, unroll, unfold, untwist; open up, bloom, flower; display, exhibit, show, present; produce, reveal, unveil, uncover.

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spread out disseminate, distribute, send out, dispense, give out, pass out, hand out, circulate; broadcast, air, televise, publish, publicize, make public; promulgate, propagate, spread around, teach, preach, tell of or about, give to the world; advertise, trumpet, blazon, herald, blaze about, hawk, announce; recite, repeat, bruit, bandy about, rumor; disperse, scatter, strew, bestrew, cast, throw out, sow; shed, radiate, shine, effuse, throw off, give forth; diffuse, circumfuse, dissipate, dispel.

4. array, arrange, set up, organize, order; put things on or around, situate, position, posit, locate, dispose; lay out, set out, (both of a table) set, lay.

5. apply, put on, daub on, lay on, smooth on, paint on, rub on, smear on; pour on, plaster on, go heavy with, be generous with, Inf. slather, SI. slop on, SI. pile on.

6. Usu.

spread [s.t.] over cover, overspread, overlay; blanket, mantle, cloak, wrap up, enwrap, bundle up, muffle up, swaddle; shelter, canopy, house, protect; shield, screen, veil, curtain, shroud; coat, film, layer, carpet, pave, plaster, parget, incrust; plate, gild, enamel, lacquer, paint, varnish, wash; glaze, ice, top off, sugar-coat, candy, spatter, sprinkle, asperse, bespatter, fleck, dot; wash over, overflow, overrun, engulf, inundate, flood, submerge, drown, smother.

7. separate, part, come apart, come undone or unglued; force apart, take apart, fold or bend back, hold open or down, pin or tack back or down; unfasten, undo, open; flatten out, flatten, make flush, level; smush, mash, squash, crush, pound down.

-n. 8. expansion, extension, enlargement, augmentation, magnification, aggrandizement; widening, broadening, dilation, dilatation, distension, swelling, bloating, tumefaction, Physiol, diastole; growth, propagation, multiplication, increase, increment, development, advance, advancement, inflation, mushrooming; deepening, heightening, waxing, intensification, escalation; transmission, transference, communication, contagion, movement, Pathol, metastasis;