SPREAD OVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spread over mean? 

• SPREAD OVER (verb)
  The verb SPREAD OVER has 1 sense:

1. form a cover over

  Familiarity information: SPREAD OVER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPREAD OVER (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Form a cover over

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

cover; spread over

Context example:

The grass covered the grave

Hypernyms (to "spread over" is one way to...):

adjoin; contact; meet; touch (be in direct physical contact with; make contact)

Verb group:

cover (provide with a covering or cause to be covered)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "spread over"):

flood (cover with liquid, usually water)

bloody (cover with blood)

mist; mist over (become covered with mist)

glaciate (cover with ice or snow or a glacier)

strew (cover; be dispersed over)

grass; grass over (cover with grass)

cake; coat (form a coat over)

drown; overwhelm; submerge (cover completely or make imperceptible)

mantle (cover like a mantle)

cloak; clothe; drape; robe (cover as if with clothing)

blanket (form a blanket-like cover (over))

carpet (form a carpet-like cover (over))

smother (form an impenetrable cover over)

shroud (form a cover like a shroud)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

 Context examples 

Data indicated the ice in Mercury's polar regions, if spread over an area the size of Washington, would be more than two miles thick.

(NASA Spacecraft Achieves Unprecedented Success Studying Mercury, NASA)

The inflammation is spread over a large area of the intestinal tract.

(Diffuse Acute Enteritis of the Mouse Intestinal Tract, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

A metric unit of areal density defined as a spread rate at which one gram of a substance is spread over the area of one square centimeter.

(Gram per Square Centimeter, NCI Thesaurus)

A metric unit of areal density defined as a spread rate at which one gram of a substance is spread over the area of one square meter.

(Gram per Square Meter, NCI Thesaurus)

As I spoke, a dark gloom spread over my listener’s countenance.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He suddenly stopped and the old cunning look spread over his face, like a wind-sweep on the surface of the water.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The brightest glow was instantly spread over Isabella's features, all care and anxiety seemed removed, her spirits became almost too high for control, and she called herself without scruple the happiest of mortals.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

She consented; and she even brought me a clean towel to spread over my dress, "lest," as she said, "I should mucky it."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

With these words the Witch fell down in a brown, melted, shapeless mass and began to spread over the clean boards of the kitchen floor.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

During his present short stay, Emma had barely seen him; but just enough to feel that the first meeting was over, and to give her the impression of his not being improved by the mixture of pique and pretension, now spread over his air.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)