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third-person singular simple present outspreads, present participle outspreading, simple past and past participle outspread
(transitive, intransitive) To spread out; expand; extend. examples
comparative more outspread, superlative most outspread
Extended outward, as one's arms. quotations examples
Brutes […] / Ruminate heedleſs of the ſcene outſpread / Beneath, beyond, and ſtretching far away / From inland regions to the diſtant main.
1785, William Cowper, “Book V. The Winter Morning Walk.”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], page 221