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out

adverb, preposition (MOVE AWAY)
 
 
/aʊt/

Definition

spreading out from a central point over a wider area: The police search party spread out across the fields.From, out and outsideSpreading and scattering
(Definition of out adverbpreposition (MOVE AWAY) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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