If your garden is overflowing, be a good neighbor and 'spread the wealth'. [=give some of what is growing in your garden to neighbors]
He's known as a comic actor, but he's 'spreading his wings' and trying a serious role in his new movie.
The plant will 'spread'. [=the plant will produce more plants in the area around it]
(..) any better. You both have till hours to figure something out. OK, what happens, then? You go back in. Violence continues to spread across the US, today The President has declared a mandatory dusk to dawn curfew, after the crackdown by the National Guard (..)2016 Arrival
(..) two more reported to have penetrated Russian airspace: one in Siberia and the other off the coast of the Black Sea, So far there are unidentified objects spread across the globe. There is no obvious logic to their locations and no evidence that the ships are even occupi... (..)2016 Arrival