spread
/spɹid/ verb C2- To speedread; to recite one's arguments at an extremely fast pace.
He/she/it spreads · Past spread · Past participle spread · -ing form spreading
Verb forms
- Base form
- spread
- He/she/it
- spreads
- Past
- spread
- Past participle
- spread
- -ing form
- spreading
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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So she went to the cupboard and cut herself some bread, which she spread with butter.
Then inch by inch out of the grass rose up the head and spread hood of Nag, the big black cobra, and he was five feet long from tongue to tail.
The great God Brahm put his mark upon all our people, when the first cobra spread his hood to keep the sun off Brahm as he slept.
He spread out his hood more than ever, and Rikki-tikki saw the spectacle-mark on the back of it that looks exactly like the eye part of a hook-and-eye fastening.
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