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Verb
- spread out or open from a closed or folded state
- move away from each other;
- The children scattered in all directions when the teacher approached
- turn outward
- These birds can splay out their toes
- ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees
- extend in one or more directions
- strew or distribute over an area
- He spread fertilizer over the lawn
- scatter cards across the table
- set out or stretch in a line, succession, or series
- the houses were strung out in a long row