cundir

to spread

verb koon-DEER Rare

Also means

to go a long way

Usage Note

Cundir is a useful but tricky verb: it can mean that something spreads (panic, a rumour, fire) or that a resource stretches further than expected. El arroz cunde mucho means 'rice goes a long way'. Because its subjects are usually things, it appears mostly in third-person forms, and it has no close single-word English equivalent.

Examples

"El pánico cundió entre la multitud."

Natural Translation

Panic spread through the crowd.

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