Develop and Spread

Develop

Develop verb - To gradually become clearer or more detailed.

Spread is a synonym for develop in grow topic. In some cases you can use "Spread" instead a verb "Develop", when it comes to topics like reach, improve, expand.

Spread

Spread verb - To become known.
Usage example: once news of the war's end had spread, spontaneous celebrations broke out everywhere

Develop is a synonym for spread in grow topic. You can use "Develop" instead a verb "Spread", if it concerns topics such as reach, improve, open or fan out.

Nearby Words: spreading, spreader

Common collocations

friendship develop friendship spread friendship
ability develop ability spread ability
power develop power spread power
life develop life spread life
Other words: way, technology, cure, magic, version, virus.

Both words in one sentence

  • Yunkai immediately mounts an attack on Dany, half the slaves she liberated starve to death living in the economically frozen ghost town, and the combination of the two helps a plague develop and spread.
  • Comic Book / The Halo Graphic Novel Zombie Apocalypse: The Flood, but eventually they develop beyond being mindless savages to becoming a Hive Mind and assembling a means to spread to more worlds.
  • Magic Knight In Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, a player who chooses not to focus on any of the three main skill trees of Might, Sorcery and Finesse and instead spread their skill points between two of those disciplines will develop into a hybrid class.
    Source: Magic Knight
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