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disperse Verb [-persing, -persed] 1. to scatter over a wide area 2. to leave or cause to leave a gathering: police dispersed rioters 3. to separate (light) into its different wavelengths 4. to separate (particles) throughout a solid, liquid, or gas [Latin dispergere to scatter widely] dispersal
dispersion n USAGE: See at disburse. ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
disperse Translationsvi → dispersarse vi → se disperser (crowd etc) → auflösen, zerstreuen; (knowledge, information) → verbreiten vi (crowd) → sich auflösen or zerstreuen vi → disperdersi |
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| All attempts to disperse the groups collected in the streets, or silence their exclamations, were in vain. And thus, with a clatter of maids and valets--for it is one appurtenance of their cousinship that however difficult they may find it to keep themselves, they MUST keep maids and valets--the cousins disperse to the four winds of heaven; and the one wintry wind that blows to-day shakes a shower from the trees near the deserted house, as if all the cousins had been changed into leaves. Is it not possible that God may hear my prayers, disperse these gloomy shadows, and grant me some beams of heaven's sunshine yet? |
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