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spreading¹

  • /ˈspɹɛdɪŋ/

Rhymes with -ɛdɪŋ

Where it comes from

By surface analysis, spread + -ing.

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of spread And so, unfortunately, this great and spreading network of railways, that recently showed such promise as a major instrument in the modern development of China, must be left for the time being in the melting-pot of Armageddon.

noun spreadings

  1. countable, uncountable The act by which something is spread. Small numbers [of meadowlarks] remain on farms in the southern counties throughout the winter, usually relying on fresh manure spreadings for food when snow covers the fields.

spreading²

  • /ˈspɹiːdɪŋ/

Rhymes with -iːdɪŋ

Where it comes from

Blend of speed + reading.

noun

  1. uncountable The act of spreading (speedreading). Chief among the strategies exploiting this rule was "spreading" (a combination of "speed" and "reading"), where debaters would rattle off arguments at a blistering pace. Their speeches often exceeded 300 words per minute. (A conversational pace is about 60 per minute.)

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of spread

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: disseminative, dissemination, diffusive, dispersive, scattering, wide, circulation, broad, diffusing, airing, distributive, branchy, bushy, disseminating, public exposure, wide-spreading

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noun act by which something is spread

Françaisécartement
DeutschVerteilen, Verteilung, Verbreiten, Verbreitung
עבריתהפצה hafatsá, התפשטות hitpashtút

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@misc{spreading_2026,
  title = {spreading},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/spreading},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}