Diffuse
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To spread over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or passive means. To be spread over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or passive means.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Everywhere or throughout everything; not focused or concentrated.
Example sentence: I learned early in life that laughter is a great way to diffuse and uncomfortable situation, so I began to use that as a tool, throughout my life.
Spread
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions.To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.To open one's legs.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The act of spreading or something that has been spread.An expanse of land.A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.Any form of food designed to be spread onto a slice of bread etc.An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.A numerical difference.The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another month of the same commodity.The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another futures delivery month of the same commodity.The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery month of a different commodity.An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of a profit from price discrepancies.The difference between bidding and asking price.The difference between the prices of two similar items.
Example sentence: Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead.