Appearance and Spreading

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Appearance noun - The outward form of someone or something especially as indicative of a quality.

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Spreading and appearance are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Spreading" instead a noun "Appearance".

Nearby Words: appear, appeared, appearing

Spreading noun - Act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or time.

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Appearance and spreading are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Appearance" instead a noun "Spreading".

Nearby Words: spread, spreader

Glamour Failure: Vanellope's glitch spreading over King Candy causes him to revert to his true appearance of Turbo.

Source: Disney / Wreck-It Ralph
It begins as a very traditional example of a mystery story using this trope, where a nondescript male narrator is describing Lupin he is actually Lupin himself, and has been spreading to the police inaccurate descriptions of his appearance.

Source: First-Person Peripheral Narrator
Not only does he not make nearly as many jokes as he did before, but he even changes his general appearance and style; he ditches his iconic purple zoot suit for straight-laced funeral attire and abandons his wacky gadgets for normal gas dispersers spreading Joker Toxin.

Source: Lets Get Dangerous / Comic Books

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