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Disperse

verb

(past & past part. dispersed; pres. part. dispersing)

Distribute loosely. Synonyms: dot, dust, scatter, sprinkle.

To cause to separate and go in different directions. Synonyms: break up, dispel, dissipate, scatter.

Cause to separate. Synonyms: break up, scatter. "Disperse particles"

Move away from each other. Synonyms: dissipate, scatter, spread out. "The children scattered in all directions when the teacher approached"

Separate (light) into spectral rays.

Cause to become widely known. Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread. "Circulate a rumor" , "Broadcast the news"

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"Disperse" Quotes from Famous Books

... down about Jewish soldiers, We all dispersed over the lonesome forests; Over the lonesome forests did we disperse, In lonesome pits did we hide ...

— History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II • S.M. Dubnow

... to Alvarado's expedient. He compelled the unhappy Montezuma to mount the walls of the palace and bid the people disperse. When he appeared in all his splendid panoply upon the roof of the palace there was a strange silence. He was no longer priest, he was no longer emperor, he was no longer a power, he was no longer a god, but ...

— South American Fights and Fighters - And Other Tales of Adventure • Cyrus Townsend Brady

... instinct with life and motion, stare wildly about them. Another step, and they all take flight but one, which stoops low on the branch, and with the look of a frightened cat regards me for a few seconds over its shoulder. They fly swiftly and softly, and disperse through the trees. I shoot one, which is of a tawny red tint, like that figured by Wilson. It is a singular fact that the plumage of these owls presents two totally distinct phases which "have no relation to sex, age, or season," one being an ashen ...

— Wake-Robin • John Burroughs

... had but a heavy gun!" cried Warren. "They say to hit the waterspout in the centre where it joins the other from below will disperse it." ...

— Standish of Standish - A story of the Pilgrims • Jane G. Austin

... pitchyng the fielde, to reserve behynde the first front aide inoughe, then to make the fronte bigger to disperse ...

— Machiavelli, Volume I - The Art of War; and The Prince • Niccolo Machiavelli

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