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تفشّى

Root: فشو

Form: 5

Full Definition

تفشّىV It became wide. And تفشّت القَرْحَةُ The ulcer, or sore, became wide, and blistered, and corrupt, by reason of third purulent matter.
2 تَفَشَّاهُمْ, and تفشّى بِهِمْ, said of a disease, It became much among them, and spread: or, as in the T, became common, or general, or universal, among them: AZ mentions the verb as with hemz. (TA. [See 5 in art. فشأ.])
3 And تفشّى الحِبْرُفِى الكَاغَدِ The ink infiltrated into the paper upon which one had written, it being thin.
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