spread out
— phrasal verb with spread uk/spred/us/spred/verb [ I or T ] spread
B2 If people spread out, they move from being close together in a group to being in different places across a larger area:
They spread out to search the whole area.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Spreading and scattering
- all over the place idiom
- bedaub
- bestrew
- billow
- circulate
- fan out
- go round (somewhere)
- go/do the rounds idiom
- percolate
- radial
- radiate
- slap
- sprawl
- spread
- sprinkling
- straggle
- stretch
- strew
- suffuse
- sweep
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