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  2. Synonyms of disperse. transitive verb. 1. a. : to cause to break up (see break up sense 1a) police dispersed the crowd. b. : to cause to become spread widely. disperse the troops. c. : to cause to evaporate or vanish. sunlight dispersing the mist. 2. : to spread or distribute from a fixed or constant source: such as. archaic : disseminate.

  3. to spread across or move away over a large area, or to make something do this: When the rain came down the crowds started to disperse. Police dispersed the crowd that had gathered. Compare. disseminate formal. Fewer examples. Outside the church, the congregation shook hands with the vicar and began to disperse.

  4. Definition of disperse verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

  5. Disperse is to spread out people or things, making them move in different directions. Imagine yourself standing on a basketball court holding a cup packed tight with marbles. If you turn it over, the marbles will disperse across the floor, moving away from you in all directions.

  6. verb (used without object) , dis·persed, dis·pers·ing. 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: evanesce, disappear.

  7. Synonyms: scatter, spread, distribute, circulate More Synonyms of disperse. 2. verb. When a group of people disperses or when someone disperses them, the group splits up and the people leave in different directions. Police fired shots and used teargas to disperse the demonstrators.

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