To pour out and spread, as a fluid; cause to flow and spread.To spread abroad; scatter; send out or extend in all directions.Synonyms To scatter, disseminate, circulate, disperse, distribute, propagate.To spread, as a fluid, by the wandering of its molecules in amongst those of a contiguous fluid.Widely spread or diffused; extended; dispersed; scattered.SpecificallyIn pathology, spreading widely and having no distinctively defined limits: as, a diffuse inflammation or suppuration: opposed to circumscribed.In boto, spreading widely and loosely.In embryology, applied to a form of non-deciduate placenta in which the fetal villi form a broad belt.In zoology, sparse; few and scattered, as markings; especially, in entomology, said of punctures, etc., when they are less thickly set than on a neighboring part from which they appear to be scattered off.Prolix; using many words; verbose; rambling: said of speakers and writers or their style.Hard to understand; perplexing; requiring extended effort.Synonyms Loose, rambling, wordy, long-winded, diluted, spun out.