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Despreaded vs Dispreaded - What's the difference?

despreaded | dispreaded |

As verbs the difference between despreaded and dispreaded

is that despreaded is past tense of despread while dispreaded is past tense of dispread.

despreaded

English

Verb

(head)
  • (despread)

  • despread

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

  • To recombine radio signals that have been spread or distributed.
  • Etymology 2

    dispreaded

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (dispread)

  • dispread

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic, rare) To spread out, to extend.
  • *1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.ii:
  • *:In widest Ocean she her throne does reare, / That ouer all the earth it may be seene; / As morning Sunne her beames dispredden cleare [...].