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Dispread vs Despread - What's the difference?

dispread | despread |

As verbs the difference between dispread and despread

is that dispread is (archaic|rare) to spread out, to extend while despread is to recombine radio signals that have been spread or distributed or despread can be .

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 [...].

    • despread

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

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

    • Etymology 2

    Verb

    (en verb)
    • (Webster 1913)