What are the opposite words for spread?
The word "spread" means to extend, distribute or disseminate something over a wide area. Its antonyms, on the other hand, are words that denote the opposite of spreading, such as gather, collect, or compact. When something is gathered or collected, it is brought together in a concentrated form rather than spread out. Similarly, compact or compress means to reduce the size of something and make it dense rather than more extensive or broad. Contrasting words like these give depth to our language and help us express different nuances of meaning, allowing us to communicate more clearly and effectively.
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- contract
- contact
- collect
- extract
- converge
- congregate
- meet
- centralize
- accumulate
- assemble
- bring together
- bundle
- cluster
- concentrate
- condense
- cumulate
- gather
- huddle
- bunch
- compile
- crowd
- flock
- garner
- heap
- hoard
- marshal
- pack
- pile
- pucker
- rendezvous
- swarm
- tuck
- group
- collate
- gather in group
- accumulate, package
- concentrate, draw toward a point
- assemble, group
- sort collection
- accumulate, come together
- assemble, accumulate
- gather, collect
- assemble, come together
- cram, press into area
- physically remove, draw out
- collect, accumulate
- come or bring together
- pick out, collect
- amass, collect in pile
- put away, accumulate
- meet, discuss
- organize, guide
- come together, convene
- make ready for transport
- gather, pack; put on top of another
- draw together; wrinkle
- meet, often secretly
- open or fan out
- move forward as a group
- fold together
- contraction
- drawing in; shortening
- expansion, development; extent
- reduced
- rolled
- made smaller
- made into a roll
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
-
contract
- come around,
- draw in,
- fall away,
- indispose,
- ink,
- lose,
- recede,
- sign up,
- syncopate,
- syncopated,
- wrinkle,
- Indisposing,
- Initialing,
- Inked,
- Inking,
- Waned,
- Syncopating,
- inks,
- indisposes,
- syncopates,
- go along with,
- go down with,
- sign for,
- swear to,
- signed up,
- signed for,
- grow less,
- be afflicted with,
- give ones word,
- give word,
- accept offer,
- accepted offer,
- accepting offer,
- accepts offer,
- am afflicted with,
- am ill with,
- are afflicted with,
- are ill with,
- art afflicted with,
- art ill with,
- be ill with,
- became indebted,
- became infected with,
- became smaller,
- become indebted,
- become infected with,
- become smaller,
- becomes indebted,
- becomes infected with,
- becomes smaller,
- becoming indebted,
- becoming infected with,
- becoming smaller,
- being afflicted with,
- being ill with,
- came around,
- comes around,
- coming around,
- de cline,
- de clines,
- de crease,
- de creases,
- de range,
- de ranged,
- de ranges,
- de ranging,
- de-cline,
- de-clines,
- de-crease,
- de-creases,
- de-range,
- de-ranged,
- de-ranges,
- de-ranging,
- dis order,
- dis ordered,
- dis ordering,
- dis orders,
- dis-order,
- dis-ordered,
- dis-ordering,
- dis-orders,
- drawing in,
- draws in,
- drew in,
- enter in to,
- fall victim to,
- falling away,
- falls away,
- falls victim to,
- fell away,
- fell victim to,
- firm deal,
- firmed a deal,
- firmed deal,
- firming a deal,
- firming deal,
- firms a deal,
- firms deal,
- gave one's word,
- gave ones word,
- gave word,
- give one word,
- give one's word,
- gives one word,
- gives ones word,
- gives word,
- giving one's word,
- giving ones word,
- giving word,
- going down with,
- grew less,
- growing less,
- grows less,
- hammer out deal,
- hammering out deal,
- hammers out deal,
- in curred,
- in dispose,
- in disposed,
- in disposes,
- in disposing,
- in duce,
- in duces,
- in-curred,
- in-curring,
- in-disposed,
- in-disposes,
- in-disposing,
- in-duce,
- in-duces,
- initialled,
- initialling,
- is afflicted with,
- is ill with,
- it a deal,
- it a dealing,
- it a deals,
- it a dealt,
- it deal,
- it dealing,
- it deals,
- it dealt,
- it's a dealing,
- it's a deals,
- it's deal,
- it's dealing,
- it's deals,
- it's dealt,
- its a dealing,
- its a deals,
- its a dealt,
- its deal,
- its dealing,
- made terms,
- make terms,
- making terms,
- pacted,
- pacting,
- pro mise,
- pro mises,
- pro-mise,
- pro-mises,
- put writing,
- puts writing,
- putting in writing,
- putting writing,
- re cede,
- re ceded,
- re cedes,
- re-cede,
- re-ceded,
- re-cedes,
- shake hands it,
- shake hands on it,
- shakes hands on it,
- shaking hands it,
- shaking hands on it,
- shook hands it,
- shook hands on it,
- sign papers,
- signing for,
- signing papers,
- signing up,
- signs for,
- signs papers,
- signs up,
- sub side,
- sub sided,
- sub sides,
- sub siding,
- sub-side,
- sub-sided,
- sub-sides,
- sub-siding,
- succumb to,
- succumbing to,
- succumbs to,
- sware to,
- swearing to,
- swears to,
- swore to,
- take death,
- take one death,
- take one's death,
- take ones death,
- takes death,
- takes one death,
- takes one's death,
- takes ones death,
- taking death,
- taking one death,
- taking one's death,
- taking ones death,
- took death,
- took one death,
- took one's death,
- took ones death,
- under take,
- under taken,
- under takes,
- under taking,
- under took,
- under-taken,
- under-takes,
- under-taking,
- up set,
- up sets,
- up setting,
- up-set,
- up-sets,
- up-setting,
- was afflicted with,
- was ill with,
- wast afflicted with,
- went down with,
- were afflicted with,
- were ill with,
- wert afflicted with,
- wert ill with,
- work out details,
- works out details,
- wrought out details.
- contact
- collect
-
extract
- catheterize,
- press out,
- weed out,
- Catheterized,
- Catheterizing,
- catheterizes,
- siphoning,
- siphoned,
- de rive,
- de rived,
- de rives,
- de riving,
- de-rive,
- de-rived,
- de-rives,
- de-riving,
- dis till,
- dis tilled,
- dis tilling,
- dis tills,
- dis-till,
- dis-tilled,
- dis-tilling,
- dis-tills,
- evulse,
- evulsed,
- evulses,
- evulsing,
- ex act,
- ex acting,
- ex acts,
- ex press,
- ex pressed,
- ex pressing,
- ex tort,
- ex torts,
- ex tract,
- ex-act,
- ex-acted,
- ex-acting,
- ex-press,
- ex-pressing,
- ex-tort,
- ex-torts,
- ex-tract,
- ex-tracts,
- pressing out,
- re aped,
- re-aped,
- re-aping,
- up root,
- up rooted,
- up rooting,
- up-root,
- up-rooting,
- weeding out,
- weeds out,
- with draw,
- with drawn,
- with draws,
- with drew,
- with-draw,
- with-drawn,
- with-drew.
- converge
- congregate
-
meet
- foregather,
- foregathering,
- be introduced,
- be present,
- get to know,
- am introduced,
- am present,
- am presented,
- are introduced,
- are present,
- are presented,
- art introduced,
- art present,
- art presented,
- be presented,
- being introduced,
- being present,
- being presented,
- fore gathered,
- fore gathering,
- fore gathers,
- fore-gather,
- fore-gathered,
- fore-gathering,
- fore-gathers,
- foregathered,
- foregathers,
- gat know,
- gat to know,
- get know,
- gets know,
- gets to know,
- getting know,
- got know,
- gotten know,
- gotten to know,
- is introduced,
- is presented,
- make acquaintance,
- making acquaintance,
- was introduced,
- was present,
- was presented,
- wast introduced,
- wast present,
- were introduced,
- were present,
- wert introduced,
- wert present,
- wert presented.
- centralize
- accumulate
-
assemble
- agglomerated,
- bring together,
- bunch up,
- calling together,
- come together,
- coming together,
- gang up,
- hang out,
- Agglomerating,
- scare up,
- call together,
- bringing together,
- brought together,
- brings together,
- bunched up,
- bunches up,
- bunching up,
- called together,
- calls together,
- came together,
- comes together,
- ganged up,
- ganging up,
- gangs up,
- made scene,
- made the scene,
- make scene,
- make the scene,
- makes scene,
- makes the scene,
- making scene,
- meeting up,
- meets up,
- met up,
- re unite,
- re united,
- re unites,
- re uniting,
- re-unite,
- re-united,
- re-unites,
- re-uniting,
- scared up,
- scaring up.
- bring together
- bundle
- cluster
-
concentrate
- focalize,
- forgather,
- zero in,
- Focalized,
- Focalizing,
- Conglomerated,
- Conglomerating,
- forgathering,
- focalizes,
- forgathers,
- forgathered,
- gat to meat,
- gat to the meat,
- get meat,
- get the meat,
- get to the meat,
- gets meat,
- gets the meat,
- gets to meat,
- gets to the meat,
- getting meat,
- getting the meat,
- getting to meat,
- getting to the meat,
- got meat,
- got the meat,
- got to meat,
- got to the meat,
- gotten meat,
- gotten the meat,
- gotten to meat,
- re duce,
- re duces,
- re-duce,
- re-duces,
- zeroed in,
- zeroing in.
- condense
- cumulate
-
gather
- converge,
- pile up,
- stack up,
- scrape together,
- ingather,
- pour in,
- piled up,
- close with,
- closed with,
- closes with,
- closing with,
- de duce,
- de duces,
- de-duce,
- de-duces,
- in gather,
- in gathered,
- in gathering,
- in-gather,
- in-gathered,
- in-gathering,
- ingathered,
- ingathers,
- making the scene,
- piles up,
- piling up,
- poured in,
- pouring in,
- pours in,
- scares up,
- scraped together,
- scrapes together,
- scraping together,
- stacked up,
- stacking up,
- stacks up,
- sur mise,
- sur mises,
- sur-mise,
- sur-mises,
- under stand,
- under standing,
- under stands,
- under stood,
- under-standing,
- under-stands,
- under-stood.
- huddle
- bunch
- compile
-
crowd
- chock,
- jampack,
- over-crowding,
- overcrowd,
- sardine,
- Chocked,
- Chocking,
- Justle,
- Justled,
- Justling,
- Trooped,
- Trooping,
- chocks,
- sardines,
- overcrowding,
- de luge,
- de luged,
- de luges,
- de luging,
- de-luge,
- de-luged,
- de-luges,
- de-luging,
- jam pack,
- justles,
- over crowd,
- over crowded,
- over crowding,
- over crowds,
- over-crowd,
- over-crowded,
- over-crowds,
- pack em in,
- packed 'em in,
- packed em in,
- packed like sardines,
- packing 'em in,
- packing em in,
- packing like sardines,
- packs like sardines,
- sardined,
- topped off,
- topping off,
- tops off.
- flock
-
garner
- lay in,
- roll up,
- Hived,
- Hiving,
- stow away,
- put by,
- stowed away,
- de posit,
- de posited,
- de positing,
- de posits,
- de-posit,
- de-posited,
- de-positing,
- de-posits,
- laid in,
- laying in,
- lays in,
- re serve,
- re served,
- re serving,
- re-serve,
- re-served,
- re-serves,
- re-serving,
- rolled up,
- rolling up,
- rolls up,
- stowing away,
- stows away.
- heap
- hoard
- marshal
- pack
- pile
- pucker
-
rendezvous
- join up,
- am closeted,
- am reunited,
- are closeted,
- are reunited,
- art closeted,
- art reunited,
- be closeted,
- be reunited,
- being closeted,
- being reunited,
- is closeted,
- is reunited,
- joining up,
- joins up,
- meet behind closed doors,
- meet privately,
- meeting behind closed doors,
- meeting privately,
- meets behind closed doors,
- meets privately,
- met behind closed doors,
- was closeted,
- was reunited,
- wast reunited,
- were closeted,
- wert closeted,
- wert reunited.
-
swarm
- over-run,
- am alive,
- am numerous,
- are alive,
- art alive,
- art numerous,
- be alive,
- be numerous,
- being alive,
- being numerous,
- gather like bees,
- gathered like bees,
- gathering like bees,
- gathers like bees,
- is numerous,
- move a crowd,
- move crowd,
- move in a crowd,
- move in crowd,
- moved a crowd,
- moved crowd,
- moved in a crowd,
- moved in crowd,
- moves crowd,
- moves in crowd,
- moving a crowd,
- moving crowd,
- moving in a crowd,
- moving in crowd,
- over running,
- over runs,
- over-runs,
- rush together,
- rushed together,
- rushes together,
- rushing together,
- was alive,
- was numerous,
- wast alive,
- wast numerous,
- were alive,
- were numerous,
- wert alive.
- tuck
- group
- collate
- gather in group
- accumulate, package
- concentrate, draw toward a point
- assemble, group
- sort collection
- accumulate, come together
- assemble, accumulate
- gather, collect
- assemble, come together
- cram, press into area
- physically remove, draw out
- collect, accumulate
- come or bring together
- pick out, collect
-
amass, collect in pile
- heap.
- put away, accumulate
- meet, discuss
- organize, guide
-
come together, convene
- meet.
-
make ready for transport
- pack.
-
gather, pack; put on top of another
- pile.
- draw together; wrinkle
- meet, often secretly
- open or fan out
- move forward as a group
-
fold together
- tuck.
-
contraction
- deflation,
- elision,
- shrinking,
- elisions,
- tensing,
- abbreviatings,
- condensings,
- curtailings,
- cutting downs,
- de creasing,
- de-creasing,
- decreasings,
- deflatings,
- deflations,
- diminishings,
- drawing together,
- drawing togethers,
- dwindlings,
- evaporatings,
- loppings,
- re ceding,
- re cession,
- re cessions,
- re-ceding,
- re-cession,
- re-cessions,
- recedings,
- shrinkings,
- shrivellings,
- tensings,
- tightenings,
- with drawing,
- with drawings,
- with-drawing,
- with-drawings,
- withdrawings.
- drawing in; shortening
- expansion, development; extent
-
reduced
- marked down,
- miniaturized,
- de creased,
- de graded,
- de-creased,
- de-graded,
- dis counted,
- dis-counted,
- more abated,
- more abbreviated,
- more abridged,
- more cheapened,
- more compressed,
- more contracted,
- more decreased,
- more diminished,
- more downsized,
- more economized,
- more formulated,
- more humbled,
- more lessened,
- more leveled,
- more lowered,
- more miniaturized,
- more shortened,
- more shrunk,
- more subtracted,
- more systematized,
- most abated,
- most abbreviated,
- most abridged,
- most compressed,
- most contracted,
- most decreased,
- most demoted,
- most diminished,
- most discounted,
- most downsized,
- most economized,
- most formulated,
- most humbled,
- most lessened,
- most leveled,
- most lowered,
- most miniaturized,
- most shortened,
- most shrunk,
- most subtracted,
- most sunk,
- most systematized,
- scaled down.
- rolled
- made smaller
- made into a roll
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
Antonym of the day
doth to a turn
- Antonyms:
- abstain, avoid, bear.
