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verb

Disperse v. t. (past & past part. dispersed; pres. part. dispersing)

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." "Two lions, in the still, dark night, A herd of beeves disperse."

To scatter, so as to cause to vanish; to dissipate; as, to disperse vapors. "Dispersed are the glories."

Synonyms: To scatter; dissipate; dispel; spread; diffuse; distribute; deal out; disseminate.

Disperse v. i.

To separate; to go or move into different parts; to vanish; as, the company dispersed at ten o'clock; the clouds disperse.

To distribute wealth; to share one's abundance with others. "He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor."

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Etymology of 'Disperse'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Disperse" Quotes from Famous Books

... guests stand out on the street or roadway looking after them for as long as a vestige can be seen—and then gradually disperse. ...

— Etiquette • Emily Post

... injured until the troops were called in to disperse the mob. Then a number of rioters were sabred and shot. About the same time riots broke out at Bath, Worcester, Coventry, Warwick, Lichfield, Nottingham and Canterbury. With difficulty Archbishop Howley of Canterbury was rescued from the hands of an infuriated ...

— A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year - Volume Two (of Three) • Edwin Emerson

... she needed, and other cloths and silk and gold with which to work. She opened the coffer in Hobb's lodge and showed him what she did: veils that she had embroidered with cobwebs hung with dew, so that you feared to touch them lest you should destroy the cobweb and disperse the dew; and girdles thick-set with flowers, so that you thought Spring's self on a warm day had loosed the girdle from her middle, and lost it; and gowns worked like the feathers of a bird, some like the plumage on the wood-dove's breast, and others like a jay's wing; and there was a pair ...

— Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard • Eleanor Farjeon

... did finally answer, remains obscure to this day. The diligent Godwin himself admits that he cannot make it out. The likeliest is, that this poor Parliament still would not, and indeed could not dissolve and disperse; that when it came to the point of actually dispersing, they again, for the tenth or twentieth time, adjourned it,—and Cromwell's patience failed him. But we will take the favourablest hypothesis ever started for the Parliament; the ...

— Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History • Thomas Carlyle

... various celestial omens and rules of conduct associated therewith; in the earlier portion of this period it was even directly enacted by the Aelian and Fufian law, that every popular assembly should be compelled to disperse if it should occur to any of the higher magistrates to look for signs of a thunderstorm in the sky; and the Roman oligarchy was proud of the cunning device which enabled them thenceforth by a single pious fraud to impress the stamp of invalidity ...

— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen

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