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v. To drive off or scatter in different directions: The police dispersed the crowd.

v. To strew or distribute widely: The airplane dispersed the leaflets over the city.

v. To cause to vanish or disappear. See Synonyms at scatter.

v. To disseminate (knowledge, for example).

v. To separate (light) into spectral rays.

v. To distribute (particles) evenly throughout a medium.

verb-intransitive. To separate and move in different directions; scatter: The crowd dispersed once the concert ended.

verb-intransitive. To break up and vanish; dissipate: The storm clouds had dispersed by noon.

v. To scatter in different directions

v. To break up and disappear; to dissipate

v. To disseminate

v. To separate rays of light etc. according to wavelength; to refract

v. To distribute throughout

v. To scatter abroad; to drive to different parts; to distribute; to diffuse; to spread.

v. To scatter, so as to cause to vanish; to dissipate.

verb-intransitive. To separate; to go or move into different parts; to vanish

verb-intransitive. To distribute wealth; to share one's abundance with others.

To scatter; separate and send off or drive in different directions; cause to separate in. different directions: as, to disperse a crowd.

To distribute; dispense.

To diffuse; spread.

To make known; publish.

To dissipate; cause to vanish: as, the fog is dispersed.

Synonyms and

Dispel, Scatter, etc. See dissipate.

To distribute, deal ont, disseminate, sow broadcast.

To separate and move apart in different directions without order or regularity; become scattered: as, the company dispersed at 10 o'clock.

To become diffused or spread; spread.

To vanish by diffusion; be scattered out of sight.

Scattered; dispersed.

n. One who or that which disperses: as, a disperser of libels.

In optics, to refract by amounts which vary with the wave-length of the refracted ray; separate a composite beam of light, into its components, forming a spectrum. See dispersion, 3.

v. separate (light) into spectral rays

v. cause to separate

v. cause to become widely known

v. distribute loosely

v. to cause to separate and go in different directions

v. move away from each other

"They include Brenna Bell, an Oregon-based attorney with the National Lawyers Guild, who claims she was arrested while trying to obey police orders to disperse from a peaceful demonstration."

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