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Phrase(s): spread something over someone or something
to cause something to cover or be distributed over someone or something. • The cloud spread its shadow over everyone at the picnic. • We spread fertilizer over the prepared ground. • He spread the work over a few weeks., Phrase(s): spread over someone or something
[for something] to cover someone or something gradually. • The shade slowly spread over the picnickers. • Dusk spread its final shadows over the land.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs