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]
(..) What about those dead cats down the basement? I mean, maybe they had some disease. I mean, some virus that... it spread to Mia... and then she passed it to Olivia, when she puked all over her face. But what kind of a virus, makes a person cutoff their face with a piece of glass? Oh my God! (..)2013 Evil Dead