spread out

— Phrasal Verb with spread

/spred/ verb (past tense and past participle spread)

Definition

› If people spread out, they move from being close together in a group to being in different places across a larger area: They spread out to search the whole area.

(Definition of spread out from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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