spread 'distribute or disperse widely' distribute 'distribute or disperse widely'
gift reimburse submit shell out contribute abnegate proffer betroth administer relinquish distribute donate pass out surrender forgo hand out restore forfeit extend remit transfer refer ?sacrifice circularize resubmit disburse
sprinkle 'COD: scatter or pour (small drops or particles) over an object or surface. ' strew 'COD: scatter untidily over a surface or area' spread 'FN: distribute a mass or a number of individuals over a surface ' distribute 'COD: hand or share out to a number of recipients. ' scatter 'COD: throw in various random directions. ' disperse 'COD: go or distribute in different directions or over a wide area. '
The invaders spread their language all over the country
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He is willing to sacrifice to the arbitrage trader some small profit. She distributed the money among oversea units. He reimbursed members. Some of the members may donate privately. They will reimburse them up to $500. I donated my house. He donated directly to JSP members. We contributed our paycheck to her.
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Most orthodontists require an initial payment to cover the cost of diagnostic materials and construction of the appliances, but usually the remainder of the cost may be spread over a period of months or years. The next step is to remove it and spread glue where it has been marked at the contact points. But it is more_than irony: one of the main reasons why nationalism is no_longer a tenable concept is because it has spread throughout the planet. In spreading the factories even farther, the automobile may not have changed to any great extent the growth pattern of the cities. Mike seized a blanket from a pallet in a corner, spread it on the floor and used it to form a bag in_which he placed his booty. Measurements at 3.15 cm were obtained on 11 days spread over the interval May 3 to June 19, 1956, using the 50- foot reflector at the U.S._Naval_Research_Laboratory in Washington. Filling these bunks by the same self unloading wagons used to fill silos spreads cost of the wagons over more time and operations. This_evening, they were pushed in from the breakfast room, with odds_and_ends of dessert distributed over them. It is an understandable paradox that most American history and most American literature is today written from an essentially egocentric and isolationistic point_of_view at the very time America is spreading her dominion over palm and pine. One can apply these facts to Britain in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as she spread her dominion over palm and pine, and they can be applied again to the United_States in more recent years. The water was there, so much of_it that it spread all_through the dead orchard. The soldiers themselves cannot stage a successful rebellion, it is assumed: but will their discontent spread to the officer class? Spread dough with a mixture of 3 tablespoons chili_sauce, 1 teaspoon horse-radish and 2 teaspoons mustard. Instead of isolating the literal flatness by specifying and circumscribing it, the pasted paper or cloth releases and spreads it, and the artist seems to have nothing left but this undepicted flatness with which to finish as_well_as start his picture. This calculation results in an enthalpy rise which is somewhat high because it assumes a mass flow equally distributed over the plug cross_section whereas in_reality the mass velocity is expected to be smaller in the regions of higher temperatures. And_then the Amen_corner took_hold, re-enacting a form of group_participation in worship that stemmed from years before the Greek_chorus, spreading down through the African forest, overseas to the West_Indies, and then here in Alabama. The truck dropped them off at the various revetments spread through the jungle. Mr._Bates shows us how this mutual education spreads its inevitable havoc. A study of the distribution of WTV antigen within the pseudophloem cells indicates that it is irregularly distributed in the cytoplasm. Grosse spread his hands. It entered her body with the ghastly intimacy of an incubus, and its particles, spreading, creeping, crawling, joined themselves into steel_bands that constricted her knees so tightly that they ached; stifled her lungs so_that her breath came in harsh gasps; clutched her throat and sucked_up the moisture in her mouth so_that her tongue was dry and hard and stuck_to the roof of her mouth and her teeth were clenched together in the rigid fixture of her jaws. In all cases the activity against** f cells was spread over a wider area than that with** f cells, regardless of the type of test( saline, albumin, indirect_Coombs) used for comparison. Then spread a generous amount of glue on the four pieces and bend them into place on the jig. Spread your vacation period over the widest possible span of time or shut the plant down for two_weeks. When the cloth is smooth, apply another coat of resin, spreading it with a paint_roller. Moreover, it allows the present management to reassign vehicles so_that mileage will be more uniformly distributed throughout the fleet; for_example, if one driver puts_on 22000 miles per_year and another driver 8000 miles per_year, their cars will be switched so_that both cars will have 30000 miles after two years, rather_than 44000 miles( and related higher maintenance costs) and 16000 miles respectively``. The opinion continues here that with a 162- game schedule, pitching spread thin through a 10- team league and a most inviting target in Los_Angeles' Wrigley_Field_Jr., Mantle just might break the most glamorous record on the books, Babe_Ruth 's 60 homers of 1927. Throughout the land their hit-and-run terrorists spread fear of ambush and death. These were increased both in number and in size, contained prominent nucleoli, and were distributed throughout the fiber( Figs. 2- 5).