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]
(..) You move to an area and you multiply ... ... and multiply until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive ... ... is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet ... ... that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. (..)1999 The Matrix