Spreading

What do we mean by spreading?

To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.

To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions.

To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.

To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.

To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.

To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.

To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.

To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.

To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.

To open one’s legs, especially for sexual favours.

Words that are spelled similarly to spreading:
spreading, reading, streaming, speaking, pleading, spending, screaming, threading, shredding, streaking, speeding, treading, steading, dreading, spradling, breading, spraying, spearing, rereading, serenading, sheading, spading, lipreading, spelding, screaking, uprearing, screeding, bespreading, spreeing.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word spreading:
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Words that rhyme with spreading:
reading, wedding, heading, bedding, sledding, shedding, threading, shredding, treading, beheading, steading, dreading, spearheading, breading, featherbedding, redding, tedding, meter reading, retreading, second reading, first reading, play reading, teaching reading, kaeding, hedding, bed hung, dread hung, ed ing, fred hung, head hung, instead hung, lead ing, overhead hung, read ing, spread dung, spread ing, thread hung.

Adjectives that are often used to describe spreading:
floor, lateral, wide, risk, fast, slow, seafloor, myofascial, epidemic, geometrical, gold, cell, difference, superficial, boundary, cost.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective spreading:
activation, out, banian, analysis, trees.

Consonant match to spreading:
spread dung, spread ing.

Words that sound like spreading:
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