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Disperse   /dɪspˈərs/   Listen
Disperse

verb
(past & past part. dispersed; pres. part. dispersing)
1.
Distribute loosely.  Synonyms: dot, dust, scatter, sprinkle.
2.
To cause to separate and go in different directions.  Synonyms: break up, dispel, dissipate, scatter.
3.
Cause to separate.  Synonyms: break up, scatter.  "Disperse particles"
4.
Move away from each other.  Synonyms: dissipate, scatter, spread out.  "The children scattered in all directions when the teacher approached"
5.
Separate (light) into spectral rays.
6.
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



... told, once inhabited and owned all the world, but were dispossessed by two human beings, Toglai and Toglibon, from whom all the people of the world are descended. After their death a great drought caused the people to disperse and seek out new homes in other parts. They journeyed in pairs and because of the objects which they carried with them, they are now known by certain names. One couple, for instance, carried with them a small basket called bira-an, and for this reason their children ...
— The Wild Tribes of Davao District, Mindanao - The R. F. Cummings Philippine Expedition • Fay-Cooper Cole
... appreciation kept my energies from flagging for a moment. Many an extraordinary prose or poetical flight have I taken in his bungalow in the moffussil. On many an occasion did our literary and musical gatherings assemble under the auspices of the evening star to disperse, as did the lamplights at the breezes of dawn, under the ...
— My Reminiscences • Rabindranath Tagore
... the event is reported as follows: "Plaies are banished for a time out of London, lest the resort unto them should ingender a plague, or rather disperse it, being already begonne. Would to God these comon plaies were exiled for altogether as seminaries of impiety, and their theatres pulled downe as no better than houses of baudrie. It is an evident token of a wicked time when plaiers wexe so rich that they can build suche houses. As moche I ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 1-20 • Various
... disperse them, take one ounce of lemon juice, a quarter of a drachm of powdered borax, and half a drachm of sugar; mix, and let them stand a few days in a glass bottle till the liquor is fit for use, then rub it on ...
— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous
... "I will crush thy insolence, as I disperse thy riches! By Solomon! I am a skillful man, since my interests keep pace ...
— The Pearl of Lima - A Story of True Love • Jules Verne


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