Dispreads

/dɪsˈsprɛdz/ verb

Definition

Third person singular present tense of dispread; spreads out or scatters.

Etymology

The regular present tense conjugation of dispread with third person singular -s suffix.

Kelly Says

When you see 'the peacock dispreads its feathers' in older literature, you're reading one of the last surviving uses of this verb—birds were among the last things still being described with 'dispread.'

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