SPREADING, SPREDDING participle present tense 1. Extending; expanding; propagating; divulging; dispersing; diffusing. 2. adjective Extending or extended over a large space; wide; as the spreading oak. Gov. Winthrop and his associates at Charleston had for a church a large spreading tree. SPREADING, SPREDDING, noun The act of extending, dispersing or propagating.
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