| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| VERB: | To extend over a wide area: circulate, disperse, disseminate, distribute, radiate, scatter, spread, strew. See MOVE, WIDE. | | ADJECTIVE: | Using or containing an excessive number of words: long-winded, periphrastic, pleonastic, prolix, redundant, verbose, wordy. See EXCESS, STYLE, WORDS.
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| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. Copyright © 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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