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disperse
[ dih-spurs ]
verb (used with object)
- to drive or send off in various directions; scatter:
to disperse a crowd.
Antonyms: ,
- to spread widely; disseminate:
to disperse knowledge.
Synonyms: ,
- to dispel; cause to vanish:
The wind dispersed the fog.
- Physical Chemistry. to cause (particles) to separate uniformly throughout a solid, liquid, or gas.
- Optics. to subject (light) to dispersion.
verb (used without object)
- to separate and move apart in different directions without order or regularity; become scattered:
The crowd dispersed.
- to be dispelled; be scattered out of sight; vanish:
The smoke dispersed into the sky.
Synonyms: ,
adjective
- Physical Chemistry. noting the dispersed particles in a dispersion.
disperse
/ dɪˈspɜːsɪdlɪ; dɪˈspɜːs /
verb
- to scatter; distribute over a wide area
- to dissipate or cause to dissipate
- to leave or cause to leave a gathering, often in a random manner
- to separate or be separated by dispersion
- tr to diffuse or spread (news, information, etc)
- to separate (particles) throughout a solid, liquid, or gas, as in the formation of a suspension or colloid
adjective
- of or consisting of the particles in a colloid or suspension
disperse phase
Usage
Derived Forms
- 徱ˈ, noun
- dispersedly, adverb
Other yvlog Forms
- 徱·Ļ· [dih-, spur, -sid-lee], adverb
- 徱·İ noun
- 徱·i·i·ٲ noun
- 徱·i· adjective
- d· verb (used with object) predispersed predispersing
- d· verb redispersed redispersing
- ܲd· adjective
- ܲd·iԲ adjective
- ɱ-徱· adjective
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of disperse1
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of disperse1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Numerous videos were shared on social media throughout the day and in one, police can be seen using teargas to disperse a crowd gathered at the President Robert Mugabe Square in Harare.
Last May, a grand jury indicted Wiederhorn on charges that he hid taxable income from the federal government by dispersing “shareholder loans” from the company to himself and his family.
“The irony is this notion that the dust is going to be mitigated and it won’t travel and disperse,” Gund, 52, said as a westerly breeze picked up.
According to the statement, IDF and Israel police responded to “disperse the confrontation” and the people it described as “terrorists” started hurling rocks their way.
Masked Hamas militants, some armed with guns and others carrying batons, intervened and forcibly dispersed the protesters, assaulting several of them.
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