Crossword clues for disperse
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disperse \Dis*perse"\, v. i.
To separate; to go or move into different parts; to vanish; as, the company dispersed at ten o'clock; the clouds disperse.
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To distribute wealth; to share one's abundance with others.
He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor.
--Ps. cxii. 9.
Disperse \Dis*perse"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dispersed; p. pr. & vb. n. Dispersing.] [L. dispersus, p. p. of dispergere to strew, scatter. See Sparse.]
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To scatter abroad; to drive to different parts; to distribute; to diffuse; to spread; as, the Jews are dispersed among all nations.
The lips of the wise disperse knowledge.
--Prov. xv. 7.Two lions, in the still, dark night, A herd of beeves disperse.
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To scatter, so as to cause to vanish; to dissipate; as, to disperse vapors.
Dispersed are the glories.
--Shak.Syn: To scatter; dissipate; dispel; spread; diffuse; distribute; deal out; disseminate.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive intransitive English) To scatter in different directions 2 (context transitive intransitive English) To break up and disappear; to dissipate 3 (context transitive intransitive English) To disseminate 4 (context physics transitive intransitive English) To separate rays of light etc. according to wavelength; to refract 5 (context transitive intransitive English) To distribute throughout
WordNet
v. distribute loosely; "He scattered gun powder under the wagon" [syn: scatter, sprinkle, dot, dust]
to cause to separate and go in different directions; "She waved her hand and scattered the crowds" [syn: dissipate, dispel, break up, scatter]
move away from each other; "The crowds dispersed"; "The children scattered in all directions when the teacher approached"; [syn: dissipate, scatter, spread out]
cause to separate; "break up kidney stones"; "disperse particles" [syn: break up, scatter]
cause to become widely known; "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news" [syn: circulate, circularize, circularise, distribute, disseminate, propagate, broadcast, spread, diffuse, pass around]
Wikipedia
Disperse was a Christian Rock band from Southern Indiana that disbanded in 2004. The band was formerly known, with an adjusted roster, as "Stuff."
Usage examples of "disperse".
If it had been able to complete its skim around the sun, it would have soared back out to the cometary cloud, quickly cooling, the lovely coma and tail dispersing into the dark, to resume its aeonic dreaming.
The special rounds had dispersed airburst aerosols that congealed into vast translucent sheets.
And reports were just coming in from overhead imagery that the transports had unloaded the ZIL-85 antiair defense systems vehicles and that they were already being dispersed about the island, hidden under the canopy of trees in the interior.
Meanwhile, light shines from the sun and stars, and when dispersed through the Archaeus forms fire.
He remembered the Roman had left with Lady Alphina and Rufus as soon as the gathering dispersed.
Robotic defenders targeted the falling atomics, exploding them in the air and dispersing clouds of radioactive shrapnel.
With luck you might capture the hive, but mostly, spent and demoralized, the bees dispersed in the woods to die.
For the most part the crowd dispersed at evening but others would trek to Bethabara the next day.
Behind him the crowd was dispersing as one by one the other passengers made their way nervously back to their own cabins, looking uncomfortably around them as they went.
Journey to Calvary was dispersed, but it was some time, doubtless, between 1600 and 1644.
French Cameroons, and thereafter the ships and transports could be dispersed or return home.
He was told by his fellow officers that the screams of the crowd and the shrieks of the woman were due to the fact that General Ermolov, coming up to the crowd and learning that soldiers were dispersing among the shops while crowds of civilians blocked the bridge, had ordered two guns to be unlimbered and made a show of firing at the bridge.
In such actions, instead of two crowds opposing each other, the men disperse, attack singly, run away when attacked by stronger forces, but again attack when opportunity offers.
But it may be added, that should our own citizens, more enterprizing than wise, become desirous of settling this country, and emigrate thither, it must not only be attended with all the injuries of a too widely dispersed population, but, by adding to the great weight of the western part of our territory, must hasten the dismemberment of a large portion of our country, or a dissolution of the government.
But if, reverend Judges, you deem this equipoised, indifferent lanthorn to be indeed blameworthy for having shown in the same moment, side by side, the skull and the fair face, the burdock and the tiger-lily, the butterfly and toad, then, most reverend Judges, punish it, but do not punish this old man, for he himself is but a flume of smoke, thistle down dispersed-- nothing!