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]
(..) They never left here. It's like they just disappeared. Stick with the guerrilla trail. Let's get the hostages. We move, five-metre spread. No sound. It's time to let old painless out the bag. Payback time. You're ghostin' us, motherfucker. I don't care who you are back in the world. (..)1987 Predator