verb
- Distribute loosely.
- usage: "He scattered gun powder under the wagon"
- To cause to separate and go in different directions.
- usage: "She waved her hand and scattered the crowds"
- Cause to separate.
- usage: "break up kidney stones"; "disperse particles"
- Move away from each other.
- usage: "The crowds dispersed"; "The children scattered in all directions when the teacher approached";
- synonyms: disperse, dissipate, scatter, spread out
- Separate (light) into spectral rays.
- usage: "the prosm disperses light"
- synonyms: disperse
- Cause to become widely known.
- usage: "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news"
- synonyms: circulate, circularize, circularise, distribute, disseminate, propagate, broadcast, spread, diffuse, disperse, pass around
adjective
- Distributed or spread over a considerable extent.
- usage: "has ties with many widely dispersed friends"; "eleven million Jews are spread throughout Europe"
- synonyms: spread
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