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Verbs (22)

v. move outward; "The soldiers fanned out"

permeate, pervade, penetrate, interpenetrate, diffuse, imbue, riddle

v. spread or diffuse through; "An atmosphere of distrust has permeated this administration"; "music penetrated the entire building"; "His campaign was riddled with accusations and personal attacks"

circulate, circularize, circularise, distribute, disseminate, propagate, broadcast, spread, diffuse, disperse, pass around

v. cause to become widely known; "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news"

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Adjectives (2)

diffuse

adj. lacking conciseness; "a diffuse historical novel"

diffuse

adj. spread out; not concentrated in one place; "a large diffuse organization"

Fuzzynyms (95)

disperse, dissipate, scatter, spread out

v. move away from each other; "The crowds dispersed"; "The children scattered in all directions when the teacher approached";

grow

v. become larger, greater, or bigger; expand or gain; "The problem grew too large for me"; "Her business grew fast"

build

v. develop and grow; "Suspense was building right from the beginning of the opera"

progress, come on, come along, advance, get on, get along, shape up

v. develop in a positive way; "He progressed well in school"; "My plants are coming along"; "Plans are shaping up"

string out, spread out

v. set out or stretch in a line, succession, or series; "the houses were strung out in a long row"

expand, spread out

v. extend in one or more directions; "The dough expands"

mushroom

v. grow and spread fast; "The problem mushroomed"

bloom, blossom, flower

v. produce or yield flowers; "The cherry tree bloomed"

burgeon

v. grow and flourish; "The burgeoning administration"; "The burgeoning population"

boom, thrive, flourish, expand

v. grow vigorously; "The deer population in this town is thriving"; "business is booming"

proliferate

v. grow rapidly; "Pizza parlors proliferate in this area"

increase

v. become bigger or greater in amount; "The amount of work increased"

stretch

v. become longer by being stretched and pulled; "The fabric stretches"

fill, fill up, make full

v. make full, also in a metaphorical sense; "fill a container"; "fill the child with pride"

overrun

v. seize the position of and defeat; "the Crusaders overran much of the Holy Land"

impregnate, infuse, instill, tincture

v. fill, as with a certain quality; "The heavy traffic tinctures the air with carbon monoxide"

soak, imbue

v. fill, soak, or imbue totally; "soak the bandage with disinfectant"

indoctrinate

v. teach doctrines to; teach uncritically; "The Moonies indoctrinate their disciples"

deluge, flood, inundate, swamp

v. fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind"

impregnate, saturate

v. infuse or fill completely; "Impregnate the cloth with alcohol"

invade, occupy

v. march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation; "Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939"

raid, bust

v. search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on; "The police raided the crack house"

storm, surprise

v. attack by storm; attack suddenly

infiltrate

v. pass into or through by filtering or permeating; "the substance infiltrated the material"

distribute

v. spread throughout a given area; "the function distributes the values evenly"

disperse, dissipate, scatter, spread out

v. move away from each other; "The crowds dispersed"; "The children scattered in all directions when the teacher approached";

disperse

v. separate (light) into spectral rays; "the prosm disperses light"

scatter, sprinkle, dot, dust, disperse

v. distribute loosely; "He scattered gun powder under the wagon"

disperse, dissipate, dispel, break up, scatter

v. to cause to separate and go in different directions; "She waved her hand and scattered the crowds"

wander

v. go via an indirect route or at no set pace; "After dinner, we wandered into town"

communicate

v. be in verbal contact; interchange information or ideas; "He and his sons haven't communicated for years"; "Do you communicate well with your advisor?"

deliver, present

v. deliver (a speech, oration, or idea); "The commencement speaker presented a forceful speech that impressed the students"

announce, annunciate, harbinger, foretell, herald

v. foreshadow or presage

carry

v. transfer (a number, cipher, or remainder) to the next column or unit's place before or after, in addition or multiplication; "put down 5 and carry 2"

resurrect, rise, uprise

v. return from the dead; "Christ is risen!"; "The dead are to uprise"

extend

v. open or straighten out; unbend; "Can we extend the legs of this dining table?"

distend

v. cause to expand as it by internal pressure; "The gas distended the animal's body"

swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce

v. expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling"

spread

v. cover by spreading something over; "spread the bread with cheese"

unfold, spread, spread out, open

v. spread out or open from a closed or folded state; "open the map"; "spread your arms"

spread out

adj. "The spread-out cards"

Synonyms (37)

guide, run, draw, pass

v. pass over, across, or through; "He ran his eyes over her body"; "She ran her fingers along the carved figurine"; "He drew her hair through his fingers"

long-winded, tedious, verbose, windy, wordy

adj. using or containing too many words; "long-winded (or windy) speakers"; "verbose and ineffective instructional methods"; "newspapers of the day printed long wordy editorials"; "proceedings were delayed by wordy disputes"

verbal

adj. prolix; "you put me to forget a lady's manners by being so verbal"- Shakespeare

pleonastic, redundant, tautologic, tautological

adj. repetition of same sense in different words; "`a true fact' and `a free gift' are pleonastic expressions"; "the phrase `a beginner who has just started' is tautological"; "at the risk of being redundant I return to my original proposition"- J.B.Conant

wordy, redundant

adj. use of more words than required to express an idea: "a wordy gossipy account of a simple incident"; "a redundant text crammed with amplifications of the obvious"

apportioned, dealt out, doled out, meted out, parceled out

adj. given out in portions

diffused

adj. (of light rays) subjected to scattering by reflection from a rough surface or transmission through a translucent material; "diffused light"

dispensed

adj. distributed or weighted out in carefully determined portions; "medicines dispensed to the sick"

spread

adj. prepared or arranged for a meal; especially having food set out; "a table spread with food"

divided, divided up, shared, shared out

adj. distributed in portions (often equal) on the basis of a plan or purpose

encyclical

adj. intended for wide distribution; "an encyclical letter"

rationed

adj. distributed equitably in limited individual portions; "got along as best we could on rationed meat and sugar"

scattered

adj. occurring or distributed over widely spaced and irregular intervals in time or space; "scattered showers"; "scattered villages"

separated, spaced

adj. spaced apart

sparse, thin

adj. not dense; "a thin beard"; "trees were sparse"

unfocused, unfocussed

adj. not concentrated at one point or upon one objective; "diversity...in our huge unfocused country"- Owen Wister

Antonyms (2)

concise

adj. expressing much in few words; "a concise explanation"

concentrated

adj. gathered together or made less diffuse; "their concentrated efforts"; "his concentrated attention"; "concentrated study"; "a narrow thread of concentrated ore"

diffuse

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