Disperse

Definition: Disperse

Disperse

Verb

1. Distribute loosely; "He scattered gun powder under the wagon.".

2. To cause to separate and go in different directions, of crowds, for example; "She waved her hand and scattered the crows.".

3. Move away from each other; "The crowds dispersed"; "The children scattered in all directions when the teacher approached";.

4. Cause to separate; "break up kidney stones"; "disperse particles".

5. Cause to become widely known; "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news".

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Date "disperse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Note: Disperse \Dis*perse"\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Dispersed; Dispersing.]. (references)

Physics

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Synonyms: Disperse

Decomposition

Verb: decompose, decompound; analyze, disembody, dissolve; resolve into its elements, separate into its elements; electrolyze; dissect, decentralize, break up; disperse; unravel; (unroll); crumble into dust.

Disjunction

Cut up, carve, dissect, anatomize; dislimb; take to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces, tear to pieces; tear to tatters, tear piecemeal, tear limb from limb; divellicate; skin; disintegrate, dismember, disbranch, disband; disperse; dislocate, disjoint; break up; mince; comminute; (pulverize); apportion.

Divergence

Verb: diverge, divaricate, radiate; ramify; branch off, glance off, file off; fly off, fly off at a tangent; spread, scatter, disperse; deviate; part; (separate).

Nonassemblage Dispersion

Verb: disperse, scatter, sow, broadcast, disseminate, diffuse, shed, spread, bestrew, overspread, dispense, disband, disembody, dismember, distribute; apportion; blow off, let out, dispel, cast forth, draught off; strew, straw, strow; ted; spirtle, cast, sprinkle; issue, deal out, retail, utter; resperse, intersperse; set abroach, circumfuse.

Spread like wildfire, disperse themselves.

Waste

Verb: spend, expend, use, consume, swallow up, exhaust; impoverish; spill, drain, empty; disperse.

Crosswords: Disperse

French (disperses).

Comment on disperse les foules (1904)

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References

• The World Market for Disperse Dyes and Their Preparations: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

• Coagulation and stability of disperse systems (reference)

• Disperse Systems (reference)

• Francesco Petrarch Rime Disperse (Garland Library of Medieval Literature, Vol. 75 Series A) (reference)

• Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms: Disperse Systems (reference)

• Principles of Flow in Disperse Systems (Powder Technology) (reference)

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Militia try to disperse crowd. Credit: Library of Congress.

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In ordinary times, to disperse an anachronism and cause it to vanish, one has only to make it spell the year of our Lord

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Business

Disperse dyes accounted for the biggest part of the total consumption of dyes in the country. (references)

The Indonesian market needs no additional supply of disperse dyes and reactive dyes up to the next three years. (references)

The company has produced since 1976 and its production includes disperse dyes, reactive dyes, vat dyes and other chemical products. (references)

Civil Liberties

Argentina

Police ultimately moved to disperse demonstrators on the Plaza de Mayo. (references)

Burkina Faso

In August 2000, police used tear gas to disperse demonstrating refugees. (references)

Zimbabwe

Five NCA marchers were arrested for disobeying police orders to disperse. (references)

Human Rights

Guyana

TSS officers also fired shots to disperse the crowd. (references)

Uganda

The soldiers allegedly shot into the crowd to disperse them. (references)

Central African Republic

Unlike in the previous year, the police did not disperse forcibly any demonstrations. (references)

Political Economy

Dominican Republic

Police on several occasions used excessive force to disperse demonstrators. (references)

Gabon

On at least one occasion, police used excessive force to disperse a demonstration. (references)

Mozambique

The police did not violently disperse demonstrations in support of the opposition. (references)

Worker Rights

Cote d'Ivoire

For example, children recruited by Malians in the border town of Sikasso are promised easy and lucrative jobs in Cote d'Ivoire, transported across the border, and then sold to other Malians who disperse them throughout the farms and plantations of the central and western regions. (references)

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Expressions using "disperse": acetate color disperse dye ♦ disperse color ♦ disperse dyes ♦ disperse themselves. Additional references.

Albanian

zhduket (dissipate, evanesce, evanish, evaporate, fade, flee, vanish), zhduk (bump off, conceal, efface, eradicate, hide, kill, obliterate, overturn, Rob, stave off, steal, wipe, wipe out), zbërthej (analyse, analyze, break down, crack, decompose, demount, diffract, disarticulate, disassemble, disintegrate, dismantle, dismount, dissolve, Plumb, pull apart, puzzle out, resolve, take to pieces, unbuckle, unbutton, undo, unfasten, unlock, unnail), shpërndaj (allocate, allot, apportion, bestrew, broadcast, clear, deal, deliver, deploy, diffuse, disband, disembody, dish, dish out, dispel, dispense, disseminate, dissolve, distribute, diversify, give out, give rise to, hand out, intersperse, ladle, lay, lay out, mete, part, put out, scatter, share, shed, whiffle, wipe), shpërndahem (break up, disband, dissipate, grow dim, lift, outreach, reach, scatter, spread, spread out, straggle, thin), shpërhap grimcat, shpërbëj (decompose, diffract, disintegrate, dissolve), përndaj (distribute, scatter, spread), humbet (die, dissolve, leak away, waste), hallakat (scatter, throw about), hallakas (scatter, throw about). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فرق (allot, apportion, be afraid, be scared, become afraid, deal out, difference, differentiate, diffuse, discrepancy, distinction, distribute, disunite, divide, give out, parcel out, part, scatter, section, separate, strew about, variance), ‏نثر (besprinkle, disseminate, distribute, drill, intersperse, outwit, prose, scatter, sow, sowing, sown, sprinkle, strew, strewing, yank), ‏قزح (rainbow), ‏تشتت (disband, dispersion, scuttle, squander, stampede), ‏شتت (dissipate, squander), ‏بدد (burn, dally, dawdle, devour, dissipate, fool, fritter, melt, resolve, scatter, slattern, spend, spoil, squander, throwaway, waste). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разсейвам (dispel, dissipate, distract, illumine, lay, put off, quell, resolve, satisfy, scatter), разотиваме си, разпръсквам се (disband, dissipate, scatter), разпространявам (broadcast, diffuse, disseminate, generalize, overspread, promulgate, propagate, purvey, put about, tell around), разпилявам (blow about, cast away, consume, fool away, potter away, squander, throw about). (various references)

Chinese 

驅散 (break up), 軼 (put in order, surpass), � � , 分散剂, 分散 (distribute, scatter). (various references)

Czech

rozptýlit (amuse, banish, diffuse, dispel, dissipate, distract, divert, resolve, strew), rozprchnout se, rozprášit (break up, rout), rozplynout se (clear away, come to nothing, disappear, dissolve, dwindle away, fizzle out), rozejít se (break up, disject, estrange, fall out, part, separate, sheer off, split up), rozehnat (break up, scatter). (various references)

Danish

dispergering (dispersion), dispergere. (various references)

Dutch

uiteenjagen. (various references)

Esperanto

dispeli, malkoncentri (dilute, rarefy, thin). (various references)

Farsi 

پراکنده کردن (Dash, Intersperse, Meddle), متفرق ساختن . (various references)

Finnish

dispersio (deflocculation, dispersion), dispergointi (dispersion), hajottaa (demolish, dissolve, scatter, take to pieces, tear down), hajaantua (break up, dissolve, scatter), hälventää (dispel). (various references)

French

dissiper (disintegrate, dispel, divide), disperser (disband, disintegrate, dissipate, distribute, disturb, divide). (various references)

German

zerstreuen (abstract, allay, amuse, charm away, diffuse, dispel, disseminate, dissipate, distract, divert, entertain, lay, lull, resolve, scatter, sow, to allay, to disperse, to scatter). (various references)

Greek 

διασκορπίζω (disband, dispel, dissipate, scatter). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפזר (diffuse, disband, dissipate, dissolve, scatter, sow, spatter, spread, strew), לזרות (scatter, sprinkle, strew), ל�"תפזר (dissipate, scatter), ל�"פיץ (circulate, disseminate, distribute, promulgate, propagate, scatter, sow, spread), לבזור (scatter, strew), ל� �"וף (evaporate, scatter, volatilize, waft). (various references)

Hungarian

szétszór (disject, dissipate, scatter, to break down, to diffuse, to disperse, to disseminate, to dissipate, to distribute, to fritter away, to rout), eloszlat (blow away, lull, to dispel, to disperse, to dissipate, to dissolve). (various references)

Indonesian

dispersi, semburat (tinge), membuyarkan (interrupt), membubarkan (disband, disembody, dismiss, disolve). (various references)

Italian

dissolvere (dissipate, dissolve, fade away), dissipare (consume, dispel, dissipate, drive away, misspend, squander, waste), dispersione (disbandment, dispersal, dispersion, dissipation, leakage, scattering), disperdersi (dissolve, straggle, thin out), disperdere (disband, dispel, dissipate, to scatter), dileguare (disappear, fade away, vanish), diffondere (air, carry, diffuse, disseminate, dwell, popularise, popularize, release, scatter, shed, spread, waft), decomporre (decay, decompose, disband, disintegrate, dissociate, dissolve, rot), spargere (disseminate, scatter, shed, sow, spill, spread, sprinkle, strew, throw about, throw around, waft), sfollare (evacuate), sbandarsi (scatter), sbandare (break up, list to, scatter, skid to, slide). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

退散 (break up), 雲散 (scatter), ばい菌 (a sure thing, abruptly, bacteria, be dry, disconnected, divorced, flop, germ, in drops, in pieces, loose, only, perfectly, plump, properly, right on the mark, rustle, rustling, scattered, suddenly, to be exhausted, to be worn out, to expose, to kill, to lay open, to murder, to take to pieces, unexpectedly, with a bang, with a clash, with a thud). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たいさ�" (acid-resistant, break up), う�"さ�" (scatter), ばらばら (disconnected, in drops, in pieces, loose, rustling, scattered). (various references)

Manx

scaalheaney (broadcast, broadcasting, diffuse, disband, rout, scatter). (various references)

Norwegian

spre (diffuse, dispel, dissipate). (various references)

Pig Latin

isperseday.(various references)

Portuguese

dispersão (broadcast, dispersal, dispersion, dissipation, leakage). (various references)

Romanian

dispersa (scatter, spread), descompune luminã, se dispersa (break), risipi (broadcast, cast away, chase, chuck away, clear, consume, crumble, disappear, dispel, dissipate, quiet, remove, repel, riot, scatter, settle, solve, spend, sprinkle, squander, strew, throw away, vanish, waste), rãspândi (broadcast, carry, cast, circulate, disseminate, distribute, Dot, emit, fling, float, give forth, give out, intersperse, irradiate, outspread, promulgate, propagate, radiate, release, retail, scatter, spread, sprinkle, strew, throw), rãsfira (separate, spread, uncoil, unfold, unwind), împrãştia (bestrew, break, diffuse, dispel, disseminate, dissipate, distribute, effuse, exude, fling, propagate, scatter, shoot out, spill, split up, spread, sprinkle, straggle, strew, throw about, vanish). (various references)

Russian 

рассеивать (diffuse, disject, dispel, dissipate, scatter). (various references)

Scottish

sgap (scatter). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

razići se (disband, diverge, fall out, split up), rasuti (spill, squander, strew), rasturiti (dissipate, resolve, scatter), rasterati (dispel, whiffle), raseliti (unpeople), raštrkati se, raščistiti (clear, clear off, cut away). (various references)

Spanish

dividir (break up, come between, cut, cut up, delimit, disjoint, divide, divide off, excrete, part, partition, portion, separate, share, sunder), dispersion (dispersion), dispersión (breakup, dispersal, dispersion, dissipation, pattern, scatter, scattering), dispersar (blow about, dispel, distract, entertain, scatter), disipar (clear up, destroy, disband, disintegrate, dispel, dissipate, dissolve, remove, scatter, settle). (various references)

Swedish

skingra (disband, dispel, dissipate, dissolve, resolve, satisfy). (various references)

Turkish

dağıtmak (be on the loose, bestrew, break on, crack up, deal, deal out, decompose, deliver, demount, deploy, diffuse, disband, disject, disjoint, dismantle, dispel, dispense, disrupt, dissipate, dissolve, distribute, divert, Dot, drown, fling off, hand out, issue, litter, mete out, pass out, rag, rough up, ruffle, rumple, scatter, strew, tumble), dağılmak (adjourn, be scattered, clear, clear away, come apart, crack up, decay, decompose, diffuse, disband, disintegrate, disrupt, dissolve, fall, fly to pieces, go into splinters, go splinters, go to pieces, scatter, separate, splinter, spread, straggle), yaymak (broadcast, bruit about, circulate, convey, deploy, diffract, diffuse, disseminate, dissipate, distribute, divulge, emit, evolve, exhale, extend, exude, fling off, float, give forth, give off, give out, hawk, inspire, noise about, noise abroad, open out, promulgate, propagate, publish, put about, radiate, retail, rumor, rumour, send forth, send out, shed, sprawl out, spread, spread abroad, spread out, stretch, strew, throw out, transmit), yayılmak (be out at grass, be rife, branch, circulate, diffuse, effuse, emanate, expand, fan, fan out, get about, get around, get round, go, grow rife, loll, lounge, mushroom, outstretch, overspread, permeate, pervade, ramble, ramp, resound, scatter, splay, sprawl, spread, spread oneself, spread out, stretch, unfold), serpilmek (be sprinkled, bloom, blossom out, effloresce, flower, grow apace, open out, thrive), gidermek (allay, appease, avert, clear, dispel, dissipate, efface, eliminate, fulfil, fulfill, gratify, iron out, obviate, quench, remove, repair, resolve, satisfy, slake, smooth away, smooth out, supply), açılmak (admit smb. into one's confidence, air, bare, be opened, become relaxed, come loose, come open, come undone, disclose one's secret, disentangle, diverge, effuse, expand, fine, flower, gape, get loose, go up, loosen, loosen up, open, open in, open oneself, open out, open up, recrudesce, refresh, spread, thaw, unbend, uncurl, unfasten, unfold, unfurl, unload, untwine, untwist, unwind, work loose, yawn). (various references)

Turkmen 

pytramak (crumble), зaюmak (break up, come apart). (various references)

Ukrainian

розсівати, розходитися (disaccord, disband, dismiss, diverge, drop off), розкидати (bestrew, blow about, disject, disseminate, fling about, overspread, scatter, strew, throw about). (various references)

Welsh

gwasgaru (scatter, spread). (various references)

differas, differat, differentes, differenti, differentia, differentur, differt, differtur, diffugere, diffugit, dilaberetur, dilapsusque, dilata, dispergam, dispergamini, dispergantur, dispergat, dispergatur, disperge, dispergendum, dispergentur, dispergerem, dispergerent, dispergeret, disperges, disperget, dispergimini, dispergit, dispergitur, dispersa, dispersae, dispersas, disperserit, dispersero, disperserunt, dispersi, dispersisti, dispersistis, dispersit, dispersorum, dispersos, dispersum, dispersus, dispersusque, dissipa, dissipabant, dissipabis, dissipabit, dissipabitur, dissipabo, dissipabunt, dissipabuntur, dissipans, dissipant, dissipantes, dissipantur, dissipare, dissiparem, dissipasset, dissipasti, dissipat, dissipata, dissipatae, dissipatam, dissipatarum, dissipatas, dissipate, dissipati, dissipatum, dissipatus, dissipaverint, dissipaverunt, dissipavi, dissipavit, dissipemus, dissipentur, dissipes, dissipet, distuli, distulisti, distulit. (various references)

disperser. (various references)

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Derivations

Words beginning with "disperse": dispersed, dispersedly, disperser, dispersers, disperses. (additional references)

Words ending with "disperse": monodisperse, polydisperse. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Disperse" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: desperus, Diprete, disapase, disberse, disparus, dispase, disperce, dispers, dissperse. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: despiser, presides.

-1 letter: depress, desires, despise, preside, pressed, prissed, resides, speired, spiders, spiered.

-2 letters: desire, dieses, eiders, espied, espies, peised, peises, perdie, perses, pissed, pisser, prides, prised, prises, redips, reside, resids, seders, seised, seiser, series, sirees, speeds, speers, speirs, speise, spider, spiers, spired, spires, sprees.

-3 letters: deeps, deers, drees, dress, dries, drips, eider, erses, pedes, peers.

+1 letter: airspeeds, despisers, dispenser, dispersed, disperser, disperses, impressed, persisted, presiders, redispose.

+2 letters: depressing, depression, depressive, despairers, despoilers, dispensers, dispersers, dispersive, disreputes, disrespect, distempers, elderships, predigests, predispose, presidents, redeposits, redisposed, redisposes, spideriest, spiderwebs, supersized, supervised.

+3 letters: dealerships, depressible, depressions, depressives, diaphoreses, dispersedly, dispersible, displeasure, disrespects, epidermises, espadrilles, hesperidins, jeopardises, leaderships, pasteurised, pederasties, pedestrians, peroxidases, preassigned, predestines, predisposed, predisposes, prednisones, pressurised, pressurized, rapidnesses, readerships, rinderpests, sidestepper, spearfished, spermicides, superoxides, superseding, unimpressed.